Jim Parsons Quotes

I have never been an activist for anything.

Jim Parsons

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• I want a place where I can have horses.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Want
  • Place
  • I Can

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Character
  • Down

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Himself

• If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Like
  • Big

• The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Economy
  • Finding
  • Sharing

• I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Love
  • May
  • Home

• I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Music
  • High
  • Shoes

• I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Fun
  • College
  • Year

• What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globally. There are a lot of countries that really don't trust their banks or their currency, and bitcoin is an alternative.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Value
  • Trust
  • Financial

• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Women
  • Always
  • Inspired

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• It was men’s ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Cold

• Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Time
  • Work

• Your tax returns on a yearly basis don't tell you what you're worth. What they show is what your income is.

  

  Corey Lewandowski

• The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Business
  • Purpose

• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • May
  • Free
  • Law

• We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Children
  • Understand
  • Chameleon

• Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• I have never been an activist for anything.

  

  Jim Parsons