John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
Quotes to Explore
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
-
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
-
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
-
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
-
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
-
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
-
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
-
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
-
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
-
I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
-
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
-
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
-
If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
-
I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
-
I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And then I'll go to an audition and get rejected left, right and centre. They don't watch my videos, and they don't really know who I am. It is like starting from scratch when it comes to traditional Hollywood.
-
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
-
There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.
-
Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.
-
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
-
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
