Justin Long Quotes

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

Justin Long

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • You
  • Still

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Work
  • God
  • Magic

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Public
  • Keep
  • Other

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• There will never be talking pictures.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Never
  • Talking
  • Pictures

• The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • World
  • Real
  • Effort

• The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Health
  • Single

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Better
  • Unique
  • Cold

• Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Education

• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Time
  • Choices
  • Look

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • English
  • Better
  • Broken

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Reading

• I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • Reading

• The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Community
  • Effort
  • Individual

• I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • People
  • Used
  • Return

• This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

  

  Justin Long
  • Reading
  • Myself
  • Effort