John Jay Chapman Quotes

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

John Jay Chapman

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• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Best

• I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Support
  • Cold
  • Loving

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Money
  • Done
  • Problem

• My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Children
  • Today

• My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Friends
  • More
  • Just

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • House
  • Fire

• Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

  

  Herodotus
  • Wish
  • Sport
  • Shooting

• I was in a TV show called 'Lucky' on FX. The casting director from 'Lucky' was casting 'Dragon Wars'. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • She

• First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

  

  Saxby Chambliss
  • America
  • Direction
  • Attack

• I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Life
  • Real
  • Childhood

• Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

  

  John Jay Chapman
  • Life
  • Truth
  • America