Jonathan Anderson Quotes
One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way - you can kind of see what's missing. You can see when you're bored of something or of someone.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
-
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
I don't like allegories.
-
I hate competition.
-
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
-
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
-
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
-
I think I'm a good judge of character.
-
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
-
I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.
-
I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
-
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
-
My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
-
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
-
In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
-
If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
-
'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
-
Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
-
There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
-
I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
-
Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.
-
There's this great TV show we have called 'Later... with Jools Holland', a live-music show on Friday nights. Anyone and everyone's been on it.
-
One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way - you can kind of see what's missing. You can see when you're bored of something or of someone.
