Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Done
  • Win

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Words

• I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Best
  • Always

• When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • You
  • Cold
  • Yourself

• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Light
  • Fence
  • Phone

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• We want to showcase our athletes. It's going to be a festive atmosphere; running in front of 40,000 people is always exciting.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Running
  • Athletes
  • Showcase

• We nest in an accident whose precarious valance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us

  

  Max Frisch
  • Time

• From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Music
  • Church
  • Singing

• It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Real
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Ambition