Jim Irsay Quotes

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

Jim Irsay

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• Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Security

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Young
  • Really
  • Will

• I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Washington

• As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Drama
  • Student
  • Suits

• My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Favorite

• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Internet
  • Architecture

• You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Know
  • Saying

• There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • Different
  • Brain

• As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Work
  • You
  • Puzzle

• Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Snow

• If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • World
  • Guy

• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Envy

• Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

  

  Anna Seward
  • Time
  • Cold

• I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• For me Louisiana was mostly family when I was there. We hardly left; there was no need to... We hardly left the front porch. You would just sit, and folks would come by, and it was really old school in that way.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Family
  • School

• My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kitchen
  • Italian
  • Japanese

• To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.

  

  Jacob Weisberg

• The days of the revolution now give place to the period of regular organization, liberty, and prosperity, which that revolution guarantees. Thus, when everything concurs for the pacification of internal troubles, the threats of the enemies of France must, in the face of the public happiness, appear even to themselves insensate.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Period
  • Revolution
  • Organization

• What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • May
  • Faith
  • Wish

• I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Made

• I have a photographic memory for numbers.

  

  Jim Irsay