Jim Lee Quotes

A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.

Jim Lee

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Me

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Time
  • Favourite
  • Knife

• When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Alone

• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Play

• The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • American
  • Problem

• Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Stand

• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Death
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Exercise

• At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Age

• When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Safety

• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Die

• I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• We're not telling you that you need a concealer. We're providing a concealer in case you want it. We're trying to give you the tools to be able to make whatever decision you want.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Trying
  • Decision

• I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Trust

• Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • World
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Novel
  • Caring
  • Enthusiasm

• The U.S. Military is no place for social experiments.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Military

• "I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Help
  • Voice

• A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Nerd