Al Jardine Quotes
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
-
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
-
Hits and flops are overrated.
-
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
-
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
-
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
-
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
-
The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
-
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
-
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
-
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
-
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
-
If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
-
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
-
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
-
I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
-
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
-
I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.
-
It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play sports. It gives me energy. Sometimes, I have these days where I don't do anything because I have the days off, and I just need to relax, and I actually get more tired.
-
Man is created free, and is free,Though he be born in chains.
-
I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
-
We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
-
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
