Jim Lee Quotes

As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.

Jim Lee

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• Batman
• Superman

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• I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
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• I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

  

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• When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  

  Ed McMahon
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• It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Without
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• The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Generation
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• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Sense

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
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• Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Books

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
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• We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Stand
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• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
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• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Lying
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• I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

  

  John Slattery
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  • Mad

• The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Responsibility
  • Taken
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• Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Legend
  • Batman

• That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

  

  Joseph Barbera

• As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Teenager
  • Batman
  • Superman