Jimmi Simpson Quotes

It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.

Jimmi Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1975

Topics

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I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

Jermaine Fowler

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I would have 47 kids if I thought I could get away with it. I love children.

Shonda Rhimes

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I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

Tom Felton

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I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.

Michael Seibel

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I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of the earliest stories that I wrote for them was a study about domestic violence in Egypt from a government-run research institute think tank.

Mona Eltahawy

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I was an observant but dreamy child. I had a lazy eye and wild curls.

Monique Roffey

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If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.

Doug Ducey

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I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

Christina Ricci

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Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Aristotle

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I like to drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on the phone?

Sharon Stone

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Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.

Ntozake Shange

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