James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes

Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Desert

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Everyone
  • Terrorism
  • Hamas

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Age
  • Old
  • Now

• I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Art
  • Know
  • Idea

• Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Hurt

• Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Important
  • Person

• Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • You
  • Nice
  • Medicine

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Society
  • Complaining

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Great
  • Control

• I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

  

  Ice T
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Competitive

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• We must stop the division among us. We must stop factionalism. We must embrace unity; we must embrace working together, because if we are divided, we will not be able to win in 2019.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Unity

• Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Star

• I take a four-pin extension lead, so I can jack one plug in the wall, and I've got four plugs there for me. With all our phones and different gadgets, I think everyone should carry one. It's become a crucial part of my travel kit.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Different
  • Travel
  • Wall

• I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Together