James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes

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James Edward Olliges Jr.

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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Great
  • Sleep
  • Sunday

• Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Nice

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Political
  • Media

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Great
  • Parents

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Comedy

• Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Life
  • Strong

• A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

  

  Andre Malraux
  • Question
  • Problems
  • Leader

• God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • God
  • Soul
  • Fire

• Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Real
  • Football
  • Deal

• I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

  

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