Antony Jay Quotes

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Love
  • Expectations

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • Different
  • Day

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Learned
  • Irish
  • German

• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • School
  • System
  • U.K.

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Hard
  • Out
  • Account

• Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hurt

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Practice
  • Enlightenment
  • Increase

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Collaborating

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  

  Antony Jay
  • Mind