Jim Irsay Quotes

I hold myself to the highest of standards.

Jim Irsay

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• Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Kids
  • First
  • New

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Great
  • Book

• Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Band
  • Boy
  • Gay

• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Humility
  • Grace

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Men
  • Why
  • Wise

• Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Different
  • United States
  • Russia

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Kids
  • See

• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • You
  • Something
  • Melody

• I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Marine
  • Recruit
  • San Diego

• It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • History
  • Difficult
  • Say

• I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Good
  • Small
  • Team

• Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Opinions

• While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • While

• I hold myself to the highest of standards.

  

  Jim Irsay