Jim Lehrer Quotes

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

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• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Community

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Fighting

• Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Acting
  • Really
  • Ever

• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Politicians
  • Themselves

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Career
  • Walk
  • Park

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.

  

  Adam Draper
  • First
  • Now
  • China

• Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Women
  • Charm

• My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Time
  • God
  • Kids

• Worry and anxiety are not great thoughts; faith in God’s promise is.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • God
  • Faith
  • Worry

• Halfway through the winter, I decided I didn't want to be a comic anymore. I wanted to be a bear. Because bears are more evolved. It gets cold, and what does the bear do? He goes, 'Well, I'm going to bed! This blows!' And then it gets warm and he goes, 'Well, fuck, time to wake up!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Trust

• My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Important
  • Writing