Jimmy Chin Quotes

When I'm home, I still live like I'm traveling. I have nothing in my refrigerator.

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• I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Death
  • Dying

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Future

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Individual
  • Industry

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• Say yes to everything.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Everything
  • Say
  • Yes

• Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Pressure
  • Singer
  • Yes

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Half
  • Workers

• Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • God
  • Earth
  • Cold

• Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• I think about my mom every day.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Mom

• It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

  

  Diego Luna
  • People
  • Ignorance

• When I'm home, I still live like I'm traveling. I have nothing in my refrigerator.

  

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