J. J. Abrams Quotes

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

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• I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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  • Person
  • Fight

• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Why
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  • Everything

• Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Sorry

• Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • You
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• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
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  • Like
  • Songs

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• I know what I've done, and I know who I am.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Follow

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Life
  • Energy
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• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
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• I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Gaming

• If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
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  • Software

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Fight

• My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches.

  

  Alice Waters
  • She
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • World
  • Remember
  • Words

• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Great
  • Business

• My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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