James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
-
I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
-
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
-
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
-
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
-
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
-
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
-
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
-
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
-
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
-
When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
-
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
-
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
-
With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
-
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
-
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
-
I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
-
That was against the rules. We grew up in a bubble. We hardly heard music other than what we heard in church. Occasionally we'd get to listen to oldies. That was considered wholesome, I guess.
-
I love scary movies.
-
For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!
-
When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented, driven college students and recent grads who were searching for a way to make a real difference in the world.
-
The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
-
I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.
