Jim McKelvey Quotes

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Jim McKelvey

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Know
  • Hair
  • Drive

• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Film
  • Working Hard

• I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Church
  • Word

• As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Detective

• President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Lost
  • Lead

• Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunities

• I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Myself

• The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Same
  • Only
  • Socks

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• I believe that Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship are, and should be, key considerations in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. Americans with roots or interests in the region should be involved in advocacy and discussions of public policy concerning the region.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• Thank God for Skype!

  

  Andy Serkis
  • God

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Government
  • Gun

• I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Years
  • Become

• I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Partner