Jim Jarmusch Quotes
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
Adam Driver -
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
J. C. Watts -
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
Nate Berkus -
Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
P. J. Soles -
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Fede Alvarez -
People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Maceo Parker
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
Abigail Washburn -
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields -
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
A. J. Liebling -
There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
Ted Deutch -
'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
Banksy
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Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.
Octavia E. Butler -
All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
Kirk Douglas -
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
Elizabeth Kenny -
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
Boyle Roche
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There's no real high like finishing a new song, playing it a thousand times in your car, and freaking out with your co-writers.
Maren Morris -
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist.
Michel Foucault -
I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.
Jimmy Carter -
It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
Michael Chang -
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
Ezra Taft Benson -
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
Jim Jarmusch