Jimmy Durante Quotes

I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!

Jimmy Durante

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• I just couldn't live without dogs.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Live
  • Just
  • Without

• It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Football
  • Cool
  • Away

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Safety

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Brother

• I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • You
  • Like

• The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Health
  • First

• My weight has always been a struggle for me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Always
  • Struggle

• 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • May
  • War

• I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Star
  • Speak

• I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Night
  • Thought

• We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Best
  • Acting

• Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Important
  • Beauty
  • Asset

• Somalia is so bad that making a mess improves the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Good

• ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Art
  • Today

• Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Changes

• I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Picture
  • Working
  • Industry

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Choice

• I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!

  

  Jimmy Durante