Jim Fowler Quotes

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

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• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Reason
  • Nervous

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Heroes
  • Identify
  • Clint

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Band
  • Always
  • Boy

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Feet

• In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • First
  • Three
  • Sustainable

• Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Chance

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Song
  • You
  • Like

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Lunch
  • Box

• I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Mind
  • Album
  • Broadway

• I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Me
  • Doing

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Really
  • Records

• When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Time
  • Work
  • Creativity

• The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Burned
  • Coal
  • Grudge

• Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Women
  • Career

• I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Love
  • Food

• Rance: Were your relations with your secretary normal?Prentice: Yes.Rance: Well, Prentice, your private life is your own affair. I find it shocking none the less.

  

  Joe Orton
  • Life

• Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

  

  Jim Fowler