Jim McGovern Quotes

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

Jim McGovern

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• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Help
  • Motivated

• Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Great
  • Success

• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Great
  • Success

• You can't impose a legacy.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • You
  • Legacy
  • Impose

• If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Why
  • Movie

• I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Work
  • American
  • Air

• I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Feeling
  • Looking
  • Turn

• Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Society
  • Legacy
  • Greatest

• I'm not musical myself.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Myself
  • Musical

• During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Work
  • Wonder

• Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile.'You mean,' he said, 'a crocodile.'

  

  Ogden Nash
  • She
  • Smile

• But with the morning cool reflection came.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Morning
  • Cool
  • Reflection

• The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

  

  Walker Percy

• I love the weed, blow that odour

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Blow
  • Weed

• Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

  

  Morton Hunt
  • Love
  • Fingers

• The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Focus
  • Happier
  • Obsess

• My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.

  

  Lee Radziwill

• A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Reason
  • Violence
  • Security

• In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

  

  Jim McGovern