Jim Lee Quotes

Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

Jim Lee

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Character
  • Child

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • Education
  • Focus

• Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
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  • Music

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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  • Being
  • Silly

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Life
  • Death

• The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Die

• We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

  

  David Fincher
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• I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I know I can catch the football. That's the least of my worries.

  

  Kevin Maurice Johnson
  • Football

• Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

  

  Jim Lee
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