Just Quotes

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

I have those moments with my kids and family where we try to unplug and just be in the moment. We put everything else to the side and just be there with our family.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.