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J. K. Simmons Quotes

I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Authority Abuse Respond Who Figures

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

Love Green Daddy Off Made Cardboard

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

Back Top Off Come Our Some

Advertising and content have always been bound together - in print, on television, and on the web. Sure, you can skip the ad - just flip the page, or press 'ffwd' on your DVR. But great advertising, as I've long argued, adds value to the content ecosystem, and has as much a right to be in the conversation as does the publisher and the consumer.

Great Together Value Advertising You

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.

Heart Believe Search Sometimes Want

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.

Enjoy Judging Facebook Tech Even

If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.

Twins Use Parts Ever Had

If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

Live Health Luck Doctor Sick Winner

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

Work You Point Your Enjoying

Climate change is not a theoretical question for the people of the Caribbean.

Miroslav Lajcak

Change People Climate Change Question

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Children Job School Writing Reading

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

Great Service Fun Public Service You

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

Mistakes Believe Security I Believe

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