Jack Green Quotes
We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
-
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
-
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
-
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
-
It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
-
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
-
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
-
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
-
You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
-
There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
-
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
-
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
-
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
-
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
-
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
-
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
-
I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
-
We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
-
I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
-
Father of four. I like the sound of that.
-
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
-
I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
-
We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.
