James Arthur Quotes

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

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• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  

  Karen Black
  • Believe
  • America
  • Sorry

• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Know
  • Difference
  • How

• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Myself
  • Finding
  • Secrecy

• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Green

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Man
  • Best

• There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Never
  • Artist
  • Effort

• My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Year

• He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfect
  • Understanding
  • Will

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos:tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.

  

  Ovid

• The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Rock
  • Moon

• She said I was afraid of success, which may in fact be true, because I have a feeling that fufilling my potential would really cut into my sittin' around time.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Time
  • May
  • She

• Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Guilty
  • Innocent
  • Mercy

• Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Brother

• Historically, people of color and the Diaspora have been at the bottom of the barrel, even as it relates to immigration. If we don't engage in the discussion, then what is it that we're saying to people? That we don't care?

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • Color
  • Immigration

• I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.

  

  Joe Lo Truglio
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Space

• 'Southcliffe' is extremely dark. It's an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different from what we were filming.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Different
  • Dark

• I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Up
  • World
  • Song

• Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Beautiful
  • Opinion

• Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

  

  James Arthur