James Earl Jones Quotes

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

James Earl Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1931

Topics

JourneyJobSayWashingtonRunOkay

You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.

Joanna Coles

WorthYouEmployerOnlyMuch

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

John O'Keefe

SimpleBrainUnderstandingWrongNow

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

John Landgraf

TechnologyKnowledgeWorldPossible

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

Jeff Sessions

WinElectionsVotersDonors

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

StrengthCharacterHeartGreatDeep

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Tom Hiddleston

NatureSailBoatHuman NatureBack

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

EndYouThreeTwoUpEternity

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

Rob Thomas

TruthHumorMeYouthReadingVoice

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

Matisyahu

MusicPeopleJewishConnectingEven

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Mike Nichols

MarriageI AmPeopleStrongThink

I don't care what other people think. I hate conforming, that you have to wear this to a business meeting or that to a dinner. I've never worked that way.

Juergen Teller

BusinessHatePeopleDinnerThink

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Dean O'Gorman

CityEasyRealizeBostonHeadGet

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