Joe Russo Quotes

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

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• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Why
  • Boss
  • Late

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• My witness is the empty sky.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Witness

• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Real
  • Words
  • Lies

• I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Chance
  • Retirement

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Film

• I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Think
  • Man
  • Editing

• I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Work
  • Heart

• That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Confidence

• Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Thoughts

• Democracy, voters, voting responsibility ... everyone in Vadodara ... the awakening of the voters was very important and I thank and congratulate them.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Dad

• I want people to see me as an honest person, a person who is actually willing to express what they believe. The way I look at it, if people don't like that, I'd rather not be in office. I don't want to be in office under false pretenses, just saying things people want to hear so I can get elected.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Believe

• Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Be Happy

• Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.

  

  Errico Malatesta
  • Control
  • Government
  • Property

• It's not the average people that come to my show.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Show
  • Average

• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Results
  • Feel Good

• I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Mood
  • Say
  • Swings

• We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

  

  Joe Russo