James Durbin Quotes

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

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• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

  

  Banks
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Crazy

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Kind
  • Voice
  • Born

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Culture
  • Training
  • Comfortable

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • May
  • You

• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Real
  • Friendship

• The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Good
  • America
  • Pretty

• I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Generation
  • Heritage

• Sometimes the person that is best for you is the person right under your nose. I wanted to have a girlfriend in high school, and I know I would have treated a girl well, but instead I was just friends with a lot of girls. They ended up telling me later on, 'We're so perfect together,' but at the time, I wasn't the cool-enough guy.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Donald Trump and producer Mark Burnett are reportedly considering creating a Broadway musical based on The Apprentice. The pair came up with the idea when neither one of them could find a match to set fire to a pile of money.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • Money
  • Fire

• And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Up
  • Home

• As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

  

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