W. M. L. Jay Quotes

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out

Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?

When speed dating I'm seeking my equal or at least one in the making.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.