Joshua Jackson (Joshua Browning Carter Jackson) Quotes

The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.

Joshua Jackson

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• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Celebrity
  • Pretend
  • Commercial

• There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Politics
  • Mad

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• You must know what you are capable of.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • You
  • Know
  • Capable

• On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • See

• You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cats

• My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Wind

• For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Children
  • Adoption
  • Thousands

• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • She
  • Feel
  • Color

• Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.

  

  Og Mandino
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Failure

• A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Independent
  • Competition

• You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Question

• If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Girl

• Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Fitness

• I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Remember
  • American

• If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Lost
  • Focus
  • Justice

• Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Why

• You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

  

  Ben Cross
  • Destiny
  • Choose
  • Decide

• People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Music
  • Women

• Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Kids

• The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.

  

  Joshua Jackson
  • Women
  • Society
  • Punishing