J. P. Donleavy Quotes

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

J. P. Donleavy

• Money
• Death
• Food
• Health
• Worry
• Sex

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• Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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  • Sometimes
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• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
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• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
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• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Man
  • Comedy

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Men
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• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Judge
  • Stereotypes

• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Hip Hop

• The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.

  

  Dan Hill
  • American
  • Made
  • Deals

• A secret is powerful when it is empty.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Powerful
  • Secret
  • Empty

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Myself
  • Journey

• When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Feeling
  • Hair
  • Yourself

• When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • People
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Up
  • House
  • Nice

• Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Practice
  • Transformation
  • Disappointment

• When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Money
  • Death
  • Food