James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know what to do and I go and execute.
-
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
-
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-
Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
-
I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
-
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
-
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
-
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
-
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
-
The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
-
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
-
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
-
I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
-
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
-
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
-
Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.
-
You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
-
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
