Jim Jarmusch Quotes

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Jim Jarmusch

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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
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• 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
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • House

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
  • Duty
  • Discretion
  • Depart

• One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Young
  • Wave

• 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
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fans

• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Daily

• 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
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Trade

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I do get around. Geographically, that is.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Get
  • Around

• I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Equality
  • Prejudices

• I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Wish
  • Youth
  • Clothing

• No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Sane

• Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Money
  • Failure
  • Bank

• 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
  • May
  • Small
  • Relationship

• 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
  • Business
  • Down
  • Oil

• With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Desert
  • Horror
  • Escape

• My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Expectations

• No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.

  

  Alexander Clark
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Glory

• I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

  

  Jason Statham
  • World
  • School
  • Guy

• I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

  

  Jim Jarmusch