Jim Steinman Quotes

If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

Jim Steinman

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Stock

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Passion
  • Old

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Important
  • True
  • Like

• The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Kill
  • Scares
  • Amazon

• The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Chinese
  • Economy
  • Still

• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Theater

• I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Olympics
  • Practicing
  • Bowl

• Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Democracy

• Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any otherspeaker far more convincing when I agree withhim than when I disagree.

  

  Ogden Nash

• Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bad

• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Real
  • Why
  • Simplicity

• When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Words
  • Silence

• In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.

  

  Bob Seger
  • She
  • Past
  • Alone

• In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • School

• We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Romantic

• That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

  

  Billy Magnussen
  • Work
  • Live

• He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Political
  • Tolerance

• I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from within the West by nationalists, by nativists, and by people who doubt our - doubt the values of the West. We've gone through periods like this before; in the '70s, after Vietnam and Watergate, and certainly in the '30s, when people thought liberal democracy was dead, and the future belonged either to the fascists or the communists.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • People
  • Believe
  • Democracy

• If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

  

  Jim Steinman