Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. – Jurgen Habermas
Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog. – James D. Watson
There’s so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There’s a renewal that happens, but it’s a very difficult one. – Ishmael Beah
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. – Jimi Hendrix
It’s weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don’t see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries. – Jessie J
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too. – Jim Valvano
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It’s just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There’s a difference. – Jill Scott
I’d much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them. – James Hetfield
I’d been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn’t one of them. I’m still not one of them. – Jamie Dornan
Some people tend to believe that I’m a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that’s not true. I’m not a strong believer. I’m very weak. – Joni Eareckson Tada
What people need to know is that asthma isn’t a minor ‘wheeze-disease.’ It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could’ve been one of them. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble. – John Lewis
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. – Jerry Saltz
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. – John Hodgman
I’ve also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament – it was about 1982 – they called it Peace Sunday. – Jackson Browne
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think. – Jerry Seinfeld
I never think it’s right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I’ll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I’ll forget I’m chewing it. Then you don’t want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I’ve asked to throw it away. I’ve started to wonder if that’s why I didn’t get certain movies. – Jennifer Lawrence
It’s very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a ‘Fast Company’ story – some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors. – Jason Calacanis
I’m so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I’m really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same. – Jessie J
There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years. – Ivica Dacic
Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can’t. They don’t hear that point where something else has to come. – James Salter
It’s easier to be responsible for the decisions that you’ve made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you. – John Travolta
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop. – Jacob Lew
People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can’t have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people? – Jason Calacanis
