JR Quotes

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

JR

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 22, 1983

Topics

WorkPeopleCareNeverAnything

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

John Bolton

BestGovernmentPeopleAccounting

Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products.

John Cornforth

LifeAcceptDependProductsSpecies

Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

RealityWeirdViewPoliticalYou

Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'

Matthew Ramsey

WorkWritingSongYouGoSometimes

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

Amir Butler

DemocracyRealitySecurityNever

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

Alvaro Enrigue

WordsThinkLanguageAlienTarget

The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in 1991 - and the Kremlin has never accepted it.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

IndependentNeverDivisionRule

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

Robin Trower

BestFeelFirstPlayingI FeelSome

I love working with my friends.

Martin Starr

LoveFriendsWorkingI Love

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

Judah Friedlander

ThinkYouNeedRealThingsKeep

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau

LiveDeathI AmMeTryingTeach

In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.

Dick Van Dyke

HopeManSayingVoiceClothesHouse

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