Jonathan Ames Quotes

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

Jonathan Ames

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 23, 1964

Topics

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Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Robert Orben

SuccessFailureThink

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

Tom Colicchio

ExperienceMeChefKitchenPersonal

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

LiveScienceReligionEconomicsTry

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.

RuPaul

TimeJobI AmMeYouWill

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

Lisa Lampanelli

PeopleBetterAttentionLostMore

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

Judy Holliday

SimpleMeThoughtDawnAlways

Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.

Joseph Stiglitz

WorldGameRealityAmericaStronger

What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.

Cory Booker

TodayChallengesResultHousingMost

People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

Clayton M. Christensen

HealthPeopleActionSickThink

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

Arundhati Roy

GoodThinkingCareWayRealReview

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.

Ato Essandoh

TimeParentsBluesKnowFirst Time

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

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