I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. – Jewel
If they played more blues, people would just get it – they try to hold it back but just about can’t hold it back now because the blues is really going. – John Lee Hooker
My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it. – Jami Attenberg
We write stories about common people and common things. That’s what Skynyrd always is about – the real working class of America. – Johnny Van Zant
It’s wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can’t pay it back? – Jeff Bridges
You can’t have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability. – John Shelby Spong
One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don’t have to be one thing. That’s a European idea. There’s multiple personalities, multiple loyalties. You can be a Winnipegger, a Manitoban, a Westerner. – John Ralston Saul
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less. – Jeffrey R. Immelt
The evidence shows that religious people – defined by regular attendance at a place of worship – actually do make better neighbors. – Jonathan Sacks
Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they’re in the minority. My question is, if they’re not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all? – Jose Antonio Vargas
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. – James Madison
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. – James Weldon Johnson
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy. – Joni Mitchell
I don’t make money doing my podcast. I’ve learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them. – Julie Klausner
I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don’t even like. – Jesse Ventura
As my career has gone on, I guess I’ve become more well known. I’m playing to fuller halls in general, which is a nice feeling. When you’re doing that, you’re going to have a certain number of people who are not just the hardcore classical fanatics, and this makes me very happy. – Joshua Bell
People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly. – Jesse Eisenberg
I think Jersey stands alone, and because I’m from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I’ll make fun of what they look like, but I’ll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special. – Jeff Ross
People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn’t the most popular kid. I wasn’t the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle. – Jimmy Fallon
My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions. – Jane Goodall
There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she’s built. She’s not afraid to own who she is. – Ian Axel
I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people. – Jerry Della Femina
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I’m best equipped to do that. – Jerry Spinelli
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. – J. D. Salinger
The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That’s so difficult because I don’t think anyone can ever understand it. It’s not that people don’t want to understand it, but they don’t want to touch it. – Herschel Walker
The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way. – Jane Seymour
If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them. – Jochen Zeitz
Journalists have misquoted people for so long – and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. – Jason Calacanis
