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'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Doctor
  • Nutritionist

• It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Women
  • America
  • Soul

• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Home
  • House
  • Dream

• To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

  

  Susan Sullivan
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Material

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• When I talk about intersex, people ask me, 'But what about the locker room?' Yes, what about the locker room? If so many people feel trepidation around it, why don't we fix the locker room? There are ways to signal to children that they are not the problem, and normalization technologies are not the way.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• 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.