Kevin Jorgeson Quotes
I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.
Quotes to Explore
-
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
-
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
-
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
-
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
-
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
-
I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
-
Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
-
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
-
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
-
I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
-
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
-
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
-
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
-
If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
-
I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
-
You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
-
All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
-
I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
-
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
-
The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
-
I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.
