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Jamie Bell Quotes

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.

Jamie Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: March 14, 1986

Topics

Live People World Weird Kind Things

I believe we have a responsibility, even if our job is to lead a nonprofit organization, as private citizens to be good citizens and to make our voices heard.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Good Responsibility Job Organization

As the president of a university community of nearly 15,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, I take very seriously my responsibility to keep our campus safe in an increasingly dangerous world. The concealed carry policy has worked well for us.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Community Responsibility World Policy

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

Jennifer Konner

Diversity People Doing Trying You

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

John Marshall Harlan

Man Law Color Land Civil Rights

Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Imagination Wait Saying Year

Asking the director of 'The Lord of the Rings' to read my novel was exactly as terrifying as you'd think. I came this close to not doing it because I was so embarrassed. But he was so gracious about it.

Jeff Giles

Think Doing You Director Asking

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood... I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Business New York Born New Never Up

I'll listen to the people. I will not put my party ahead of what the people want.

Matt Bevin

People Party Want Ahead Will Listen

I'm not big on fat jokes. That's a little beneath me. I'm not a huge fan of making a joke - and as I say this, I'm sure I do it - completely at someone else's expense.

Michael Showalter

Me Fat Someone Say Jokes Big

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Mona Eltahawy

I Am Moral Dictator Amnesia Am Dies

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Minoru Yamasaki

Change Painting Think Furniture Wall

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

David Whyte

Past Control Regret Story Present