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

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

  

  Dan Barber
  • Doctor
  • Nutritionist

• 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • World
  • Good
  • Guy

• If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup. But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Person
  • Box
  • Hiccup

• I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.

  

  Washed Out
  • You
  • Something
  • Hold

• My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Life
  • America
  • Nice

• 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.