J. J. Abrams Quotes

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

J. J. Abrams

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PeopleNobodyKnowWantNeverWould

I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.

Jodi Kantor

MarriageExperienceTogetherThink

If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks - that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.

Jeremy Grantham

YourselfThinkHorizonLongYouSay

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Joe Thomas

GirlHistoryThinkThoughtYouSaid

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

Jennifer Lawrence

MeGunSomeoneHousePersonKnow

I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.

Jeffrey Wright

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Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Michael Crawford

LifeSuccessFailureBeginningLearn

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

Jonathan Raymond

TechnologySucceedComputersInternet

I'm going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to sing, I'll do it. I am an actor by profession, not a singer.

Dhanush

I AmSingingActorSingerConnect

If we can't support a woman while she is giving life, then we don't support women.

Christy Turlington

LifeWomenWomanSupportGivingShe

I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive.

Britne Oldford

MusicBlueStepJazzGrassPretty

There is no limit to how far drag can go.

Aquaria

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But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

Wilt Chamberlain

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