J. J. Abrams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
-
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
-
I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
-
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
-
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
-
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
We can only learn to love by loving.
-
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
-
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
-
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
-
I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
-
I never really did any disco dancing.
-
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
-
I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
-
I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.
-
The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
-
I love recording music.
