Jim James Quotes

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

Jim James

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IntegrityHopeGratefulControlFeel

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Jimmy Page

ThinkDoingUnderstandCriticsCould

I have to really enjoy someone's personality, not just their looks, before I'll kiss them.

Megan Fox

PersonalityKissSomeoneEnjoyLooks

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

Amanda Abbington

YouAlwaysWellGetExcitingReally

You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.

Stephen Vincent Benet

GoodDayEatingAmericanHorseYou

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

Travis Scott

MusicSoulGrandfatherJazzMore

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Mohsin Hamid

GoodJourneyYourselfBrokenWriting

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

Judy Blume

MotherBestWorldAlwaysAssume

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

Jose Antonio Vargas

CulturePoliticsPeopleYouLook

Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

Craig L. Thomas

NegativitySecurityPresidentNation

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

Corey Taylor

MusicKingMeGrowing UpReading

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

CM Punk

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I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.

Claire Danes

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