J. K. Simmons Quotes

I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

J. K. Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1955

Topics

FeelingProjectNeedAgreeBenefits

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

Joe Sacco

PowerPeopleChanceYouNewDamn

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Meryl Streep

RespectGraceListeningNowMissing

It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements.

Robin Weigert

HappinessHopeWomanYourselfYou

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Judith Light

HairLookAnythingFunctionHow

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Derrick Bell

SlaveryAmericaWhiteDoneExample

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

Courtney A. Kemp

FreeUniversePlanExerciseDown

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

William Tecumseh Sherman

WordsTiredBetterStopLaborMean

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Peter Temple

FootballCircumstancesClassNonsense

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

Penn Jillette

FreeBelieveLegalYouWantRight

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson

FreeCitizenSoldierMustGreeks

It is challenging and hard not to accept all stereotypical roles that get thrown your way. For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.

Noureen DeWulf

MePlayAcceptWayLuckyHard

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

Rick Moody

I AmMovingWorldGhettoNowTrue

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