John Jakes Quotes

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

John Jakes

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• I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Passion
  • Couple
  • Need

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Business
  • Know
  • Feel

• I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Character
  • Game
  • Girl

• There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Children
  • Best

• Some day I shall be President.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Day
  • President
  • Some

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Done
  • Think
  • Government

• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• The next generation of luxury consumers are much more socially conscious, and they look to invest in brands that see the world the way they do.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • World

• I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.'

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Why
  • Positive

• Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Home
  • Husband
  • Challenges

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• 'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.

  

  James Wan
  • People

• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  

  John Jakes
  • Gold
  • California