Joshua Jackson (Joshua Browning Carter Jackson) Quotes

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

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• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

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• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

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• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

  

  Joshua Jackson
  • People
  • Acting
  • Fools