When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews ‘anti-Semitic,’ they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. – Judith Butler
It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it. – John Cusack
I’ve been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It’s not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I’ve been really good about it. – Jenna Dewan
‘The Blacklist’ was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do. – Joe Carnahan
My poems getting published in Russia doesn’t make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I’m not trying to be coy, but it doesn’t tickle my ego. – Joseph Brodsky
I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race. – Joel Kinnaman
I’m like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. – John Fogerty
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator. – John Oliver
I’m just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it’s going to get unfixed. – Janet Jackson
All I know is that I’ve made some big screw-ups, and I’ve done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I’ve made. – J. J. Abrams
When you’re on TV, you’re looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it’s on TV, I’ve already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson
What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities. – James E. Faust
Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don’t even know. I have long since given up trying to figure out why even my closest friends split up. – John Niven
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect. – Jo Brand
I’m not trying to be an action star, and I’m not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you’re driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. – Jenson Button
When you’re going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get ‘Swingers’ made for the first time, which is that there weren’t any broad comedy set pieces. – Jon Favreau
I’m a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people’s minds. – Horton Foote
Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can’t. – Ian St. John
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don’t have a foundation, the roof isn’t going to stand. – J. C. Watts
The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can’t really make landmark changes. – Jim Brown
I’d say to anyone trying to break into the business, ‘Don’t just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.’ – Haskell Wexler
I think with actors, if you just don’t set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you’re usually OK. – John Malkovich
I’m trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me. – James Taylor
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we’re trying to go toward a sense of realism – toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we’re mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. – Jim Henson
I feel more at home knowing I’m not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in! – John Oliver
No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It’s someone who’s trying to do a good painting, but it’s terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn’t know how to paint it. – Jennifer Coolidge