Sam J. Jones Quotes

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

Sam J. Jones

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Party
  • Language
  • Stronger

• A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • War
  • Easy

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Warrior

• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Greatest
  • Cunning
  • None

• I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Filmmaking

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Book
  • Best

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Relationships
  • Carry
  • Ending

• The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Like
  • Seem

• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • She
  • Age
  • Best

• The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Learn
  • Understand

• I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

  

  Frank Lampard

• Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Culture
  • Winning

• Mother’s Day is coming up soon. If you’re lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you’re grateful to her at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.

  

  Cassandra King
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Mother

• More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Life
  • Country
  • Business

• In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Business
  • Waves

• I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Feel