Jim Sturgess Quotes

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

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• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Best
  • Quality

• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Black
  • Feeling

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Attack
  • Worse

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Think
  • Security

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Lion

• I believe in status symbols.

  

  Brooks Stevens
  • Believe

• If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

  

  John von Neumann
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican.

  

  Gabriele Amorth
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

  

  Jim Sturgess
  • World
  • Believe