Jim Morrison Quotes

That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

Jim Morrison The Doors

• Love
• True
• Performing
• Pretending
• Locked

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Success
  • Failure

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Politics

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Practice puts brains in your muscles.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Practice
  • Fitness
  • Brains

• I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Think
  • Pressure
  • Public

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Night

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Guy
  • Technology

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Giving
  • Justice
  • Mercy

• I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Black

• I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

  

  Pauley Perrette
  • Up
  • Words
  • Deep

• I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Belief
  • Borrowing
  • Jersey

• That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Love
  • True
  • Performing