Jim Quotes

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best.

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

The #18 jersey will never be worn again

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].

I'm very interested in variations.

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.

[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

Stupid f***ing white man.

Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

If you have a smash hit record or something that's quirky or funny or cool, people are going to go after it.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

If you think too long, you think wrong.