Jonathan Galassi Quotes

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

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• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Crisis
  • Despair

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Live
  • Sleep

• On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Fun

• Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Decisions
  • Legal

• Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Language

• We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Home
  • Song
  • Thought

• Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

  

  P. D. James
  • Up
  • May
  • First

• In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Reality
  • Car
  • End

• Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Gym

• I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • You
  • Lose

• Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Family
  • Home
  • Question

• A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Good

• When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you!

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Done
  • Wish

• There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Together
  • Cool

• For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• Our second single (I Need Somebody) went top 20, and to a band that never made it, that would be a success. But when you have a #1 hit song, you're held up against that. It's hard to beat. The radio stations picked up a few more songs by The Mysterians, such as Can't Get Enough Of You Baby and Do Something To Me.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Success
  • Single
  • Songs

• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
  • Political

• The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Choices

• There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

  

  Jonathan Galassi