Jim Irsay Quotes

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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• 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

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• 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

• I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Women
  • Movie

• 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

• There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Great
  • Inspired
  • Italian

• Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Comedy
  • Mean

• One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

  

  Freida Pinto

• just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People

• I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Work
  • Man

• I have a photographic memory for numbers.

  

  Jim Irsay