Alex James Quotes

We're genre-sluts, really. We're all good players, and I don't see why we should have to confine ourselves into playing in one particular style. The Beatles never did. It's whatever floats the boat, really.

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• 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • High
  • Plateau

• We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Regret

• Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Alone
  • Water
  • Poor

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Win

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Heart
  • Grass

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

  

  Kanye West
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Regret

• Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• I am not a madman or a nut.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Madman
  • Nut

• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Speak

• Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Person
  • Years
  • First

• Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Me
  • Play
  • Pressure

• But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Muse

• To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Live
  • American
  • Political

• One of the most important aspects that feed a thriving economy is successful businesses, so the more startups that take off, the better the financial picture is for everyone.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Picture
  • Financial

• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Composition
  • Solar System
  • Copernican Theory

• I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

  

  Nikolas Schreck
  • Evil
  • Behavior
  • Judgments

• We're genre-sluts, really. We're all good players, and I don't see why we should have to confine ourselves into playing in one particular style. The Beatles never did. It's whatever floats the boat, really.

  

  Alex James Blur
  • Style
  • Really
  • Players