Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Serious

• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Friend

• Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Information
  • Greatest

• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Wear
  • Shorts

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • College
  • Fashion
  • Star

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • You
  • Understand
  • First

• Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Support
  • Need
  • Manners

• My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • She
  • Peace

• My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Hustle

• It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Films
  • Hindi

• I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

  

  Martin Shkreli
  • Money

• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fans
  • Faculty
  • Fandoms

• My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • God
  • Interesting
  • Idea

• A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • Paradise
  • Fantasy
  • Boring