Jim Ramstad Quotes

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Jim Ramstad

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• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Amazing

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Want
  • Influence
  • Client

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Want
  • Wall

• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • House
  • Like
  • Books

• Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Life
  • You
  • Quarterback

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • You
  • Cheer

• I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

  

  Abbie Cobb
  • Lucky
  • Personal
  • Bartender

• I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Grow

• When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Country
  • Home

• I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Believe
  • Movies
  • Difference

• I think living I gratitude really. When you’re in gratitude everything’s amazing. That’s the challenge right there because if you get hung up on the past it makes it very hard to just cope, so I try to come from gratitude every day and when I do that everything’s amazing.

  

  Josh Todd Buckcherry
  • Challenge
  • Living
  • Gratitude

• Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Rules
  • Rose
  • Iron

• We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

  

  Paul Park
  • Memory
  • Bear
  • Strategies

• We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Circumstances
  • Excellence
  • Mistress

• Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

  

  Jim Ramstad