Jim Kelly Quotes

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

Jim Kelly

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Relationship

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Change
  • Personality

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Best
  • Choices

• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• Some people are just right for you.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • You
  • Some People

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Child

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be the heroine, or hero, of your own story.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • People
  • Hope
  • Hero

• You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

  

  Manny Montana
  • You
  • Always
  • Doormat

• The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • People
  • Bad
  • Travel