Jim Steinman Quotes

Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Attractive

• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Money
  • Want
  • Well

• Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Long
  • Done
  • Hurt

• There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Singing
  • Listening

• Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Health

• The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Day
  • Will

• My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Matter
  • Side
  • Okay

• Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• In the beginning, he taught you how to hold your fingers, use your head, hold your shoulders, how you glissade, bourre - the exact way he wanted you to do the steps. It was relearning the whole Balanchine technique.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Way
  • Beginning

• But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Nature
  • Devil

• I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

  

  Bobby Layne
  • Game
  • Career
  • Ran Out

• There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end point for this wild trash: the greatest future, the biggest surface, the deepest chasm, the broadest desert and the largest burial ground on the planet. It's the ocean.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Missing
  • Ocean
  • Escape

• I only want to play my own good sets, that's the only way to make that happen.

  

  Paul Kalkbrenner
  • Want
  • Own
  • Sets

• In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Summer
  • Born
  • Records

• I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Up

• Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

  

  Jim Steinman