Jim Morrison Quotes

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Jim Morrison The Doors

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• If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
  • Audience
  • Books

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Always
  • Never
  • Model

• You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• I hate seaweed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Hate
  • Seaweed

• I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fan

• Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Winning
  • Hands
  • Witty

• I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Country
  • Money
  • Travel

• We should be firing bad teachers.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Bad
  • Should
  • Teachers

• My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky;Contrariwise, my blood runs coldWhen little boys go by.For little boys as little boys,No special hate I carry,But now and then they grow to men,And when they do, they marry.No matter how they tarry,Eventually they marry.And, swine among the pearls,They marry little girls.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Men
  • Heart

• I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

  

  Katy Perry
  • Nice
  • Husband

• That has never been heard of in the history of television. It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. So what takes most shows eight years to do, we do in a year

  

  Tyler Perry
  • History

• We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

  

  Margaret Chase Smith
  • Tolerance

• Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn’t be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Business

• No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Action

• Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

  

  John Anderson
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• I have to say, after hanging out with Republicans for four days, I want to take a look at my own birth certificate. I don't think I was born in this country.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Country

• What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Enough
  • Media
  • Politician

• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Time
  • Failure

• There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Work
  • Single
  • Ambition

• When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Respect

• I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors