Jonathan Ames Quotes
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
-
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
-
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
-
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
-
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
-
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
-
For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
-
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
-
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
-
This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
-
In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
-
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
-
I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
-
I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
-
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
-
Imagination comes of not having things.
-
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
-
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
-
Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance - and neither should the Postal Service.
-
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
-
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
-
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
-
I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!
-
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.
