Jonathan Dee Quotes

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

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• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Proud
  • Youth
  • Walk

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Stronger

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Nice

• What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • May
  • Change
  • Start

• It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Today
  • Political

• There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Question
  • See

• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Justice
  • Struggle
  • Civil Rights

• Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Existence

• The time to make up your mind about people is never.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Sometimes

• Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Age
  • Pretty

• It's going to come to fists eventually.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Going To
  • Fists

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  

  Tedashii Lavoy Anderson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Art

• Got a couple of knocks and a whack on the schnoz.

  

  Nick Cummins
  • Couple
  • Knocks
  • Whack

• Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

  

  Jonathan Dee
  • Reader
  • Novels
  • Experiment