Jim Steinman Quotes

And we’ll never be as young as we are right now

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• I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Really
  • Have

• When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Music
  • Try
  • Sadness

• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • Long
  • Together

• 'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

  

  Sally Field
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Cheers

• I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • News

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Person
  • Himself
  • Uneducated

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Destiny
  • Choose
  • Brainy

• I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Interesting

• Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Simple
  • New

• Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Camera

• You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

  

  Jason Segel

• The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • World
  • Songs
  • Birds

• I've torn a ligament in the ankle and have been told I could miss up to two games, but hopefully it might only be one.

  

  Andrew Johns
  • Games
  • Miss
  • Torn

• I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Religion

• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Justice
  • Angry

• And we’ll never be as young as we are right now

  

  Jim Steinman