James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

James Edward Olliges Jr.

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• I'm bisexual.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Bisexual

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I can clap with one hand.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Hand
  • I Can
  • Clap

• Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Mirror

• I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Preparation

• Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Achievement
  • Fame

• As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Science
  • Problem
  • New

• People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Taken
  • Years

• I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Vote
  • White
  • Splitting

• Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Yoga

• I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Small

• For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Rest

• Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Really

• I collaborate with Tidal because they're for the artists - the up and coming artists and the O.G.s in the game. It's like a home, the only place we have for the artists to find support.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Home
  • Game

• Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Magazine
  • Editor
  • Reporters

• For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • Protect
  • Retirement
  • Democrats

• The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. So you do have to be resourceful and be able to flex your muscles artistically.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Work
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Death

• I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Father

• I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.