Jimmy Breslin Quotes

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Jimmy Breslin

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• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Painful

• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Friend
  • Fire

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • King

• I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Red
  • Lights

• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Tree
  • Down

• I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Society
  • Hate

• My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Color

• εὕρηκα heúrēka

  

  Archimedes

• One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • People

• What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

  

  Christopher Parker
  • People

• For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Women
  • City
  • Businessmen

• Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

  

  Penelope Tree
  • Life
  • Change
  • Moment

• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Bread

• Media, the plural of mediocrity.

  

  Jimmy Breslin