Jim Sturgess Quotes

There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.

Jim Sturgess

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • First
  • Stress

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Father

• I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wind

• I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • London

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • House

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Society
  • Punishment

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Secret
  • Files
  • Bureau

• Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Service
  • Luck

• I'm trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my overall game, just my explosiveness to the rim with the ball in my hands. When I play with a lower center of gravity, my legs are always in my shot instead of playing vertical out there where I don't get the same explosion or legs into my shot.

  

  Klay Thompson
  • Trying
  • Game

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I don't really care how we done it, we done it.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Done

• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
  • Really
  • Line

• It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Way
  • Mistake
  • Television

• There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.

  

  Jim Sturgess
  • Alone