John Zorn Quotes
What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.John Zorn
Quotes to Explore
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
Zooey Deschanel -
I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
Walter Cronkite -
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
Adam Peaty -
My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick -
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha Guitry
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
Gabriella Wilde -
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
Gary Bettman -
I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
Adam Ferrara -
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
Ian K. Smith -
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov -
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Nadia Comaneci -
My musical career was an accident.
Sade Adu -
A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
Otto Penzler -
If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
Eddie Guerrero
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I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.
Morrissey The Smiths -
I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.
Mario Cantone -
Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
Peter Greenaway -
A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
Anne Wojcicki -
What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.
John Zorn