Quotes about Things, page 27

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

Quote by Magic Johnson about things

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

Quote by Magic Johnson about things

At a certain point, when everybody has had their way with you, as it were... you tend to become a little more spiritually minded about this sort of thing..that's not me that they're talking about - that's somebody else.

Quote by Don Johnson about things

I don't like to build negative thought patterns in my own life. Thoughts are things.

Quote by Don Johnson about things

The thing about the violence on television is, there's a good deal of it that's irresponsible.

Quote by Don Johnson about things

This is my problem: I do too many things at the same time.

Quote by Don Johnson about things

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

Quote by Don Johnson about things

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about things

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about things

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about things

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quote by Quincy Jones about things

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Quote by Quincy Jones about things

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Quote by Tommy Lee Jones about things

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Quote by Juvenal about things

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Quote by Franz Kafka about things

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Quote by Franz Kafka about things

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Quote by Franz Kafka about things

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a liar.

Quote by Franz Kafka about things

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Quote by Tom Clancy about things

When you know a thing, hold that you know it; when you know not a thing, allow that you know it not; this is knowledge.

Quote by Confucius about things