AJ McLean (Alexander James McLean) Quotes

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

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• I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creative

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Heart
  • Wife
  • Anger

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • May
  • Future

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Reading

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Music
  • School

• Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Education
  • Health
  • Insecurity

• I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Life
  • Up

• I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

  

  AJ McLean
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