W. M. L. Jay Quotes

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

He's the kind of player that is worth the price of admission.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

Overall we need to get tougher and bigger.

I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a rock bright-light.

I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

I am a bit old-school.

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.

President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.

The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That’s a long trip for Joe Biden.

President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits.