Jay Parini Quotes

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

WomenImaginationRightPresidency

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

Joe Carnahan

CharacterJourneyMomentPeopleRoad

I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.

John Cho

ParentsMeCoolThinkThoughtActor

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

John Lithgow

FatherThinkingArtistFeelingLike

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

JobManPeopleStandHonorYou

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Ang Lee

MotivationEmotionsServeCharacters

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.

Amanda Seyfried

HeartTimeBrokenSomeoneYouBreak

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

Alveda King

RaceHumanHuman RaceOnlySeparate

I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

DayWomanMeForwardBlackLook

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

Robert Collier

WorkMindThinkThoughtYouDream

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

AmericaDoingAttentionOthersMust

The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.

Clayton M. Christensen

GrowthRichThinkingRealityWealth

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

Brad Pitt

Too MuchSometimesOthersPaycheck

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