Jim Messina Quotes

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Hope
  • Sometimes
  • Clothes

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • America
  • Movement

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Done
  • Art
  • Clothes

• I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Night

• That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Business

• The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

  

  Kim Novak
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • People
  • Tired

• I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Family
  • Home
  • Energy

• We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

  

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