Jake Shears Quotes

I'm not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I'm never home. I'm constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I'm, like, self-obsessed. I'm irritable, self-absorbed.

Jake Shears

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HomeWorldI CanPersonNeverLike

I don't think I'm successful.

Jenny Eclair

ThinkSuccessful

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.

John Ralston Saul

LiveGreatDemocracyYouLateNaive

I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.'

Stephen Daldry

GoodGreatMeBetterYouKnow

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Ry Cooder

FearIgnoranceHatePeopleYouKnow

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Mason Cooley

HistoryWillCriticLastWordHe

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.

Michael Symon

LoveMondayPeopleMindMeSaying

Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

Jud Tylor

DoingNothingMoreNakedRushWould

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Joshua Lederberg

LifeGoodYouFindBuildTry

You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.

Jason Pierre-Paul

WorkYouPlayoffsGetShouldPut

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

Delia Smith

GoodKitchenWillOverPayLifetime

Politics is a nasty business.

Chris Collins

BusinessPoliticsNasty

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

Christie Brinkley

TravelMountainsPeopleWilderness

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