James Gunn Quotes

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box.

James Gunn

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WaterPetHouseAlienCreateKind

I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.

Joanna Lumley

MyselfMindBrainRoadEnergyDie

I had to steal to survive.

Jesse Jackson

SurviveStealTo SurviveHad

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

John Bradshaw

EgoSelfTrueTrue SelfSpotlight

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

Johann Lamont

TeacherTimeRidiculousVolunteer

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

Jennifer Egan

MyselfFindSometimesBelievingSee

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

John Katzman

TeamTryingYouWrongWantMeet

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

ArtArchitectureHabitPainting

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

HopeYouWallUnderstandLivedWest

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Mercy Otis Warren

AmbitionPreyTurnMankindBeen

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

Mary-Kate Olsen

LiveNightSaturdayGoWantSenior

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

Roseanne Barr

FunPeopleFamousWantMeetEat

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

PeopleMeTeamPerformanceSigns

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