April 22nd, 2012 
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
Archive for the ‘J’ Category
Jean Bodin
Jason Biggs
I’ve heard every pie joke in the book. I’m still waiting for an original one.
Jason Biggs
Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
Jason Biggs
My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet – especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
Jason Biggs
People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.
Jason Biggs
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
Jason Biggs
We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.
Jason Biggs
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I’m playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
Jason Biggs
But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.
Jason Biggs
Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that.
Jason Biggs
Well, I’m never happier than when I’m acting.
Jason Biggs
I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
Jason Biggs
But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view, I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
Jason Biggs
Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
Jason Biggs
I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
Jason Biggs
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
Jason Biggs
But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.
Jason Biggs
Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
Jason Biggs
I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.
Jason Biggs
But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.
Jason Biggs
I don’t know if you’ll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.
Jason Biggs
We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
Jason Biggs
Like anyone who goes to college, you’re leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you’re starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
Jason Biggs
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.
Jason Biggs
Jacqueline Bisset
There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
Jacqueline Bisset
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
Jacqueline Bisset
Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset
When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it’s very addictive.
Jacqueline Bisset
You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
Jacqueline Bisset
Marriage has just never interested me.
Jacqueline Bisset
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don’t feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
Jacqueline Bisset
Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
Jacqueline Bisset
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
Jacqueline Bisset
I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Jacqueline Bisset
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Jacqueline Bisset
Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
Jacqueline Bisset
Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
Jacqueline Bisset
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
Jacqueline Bisset
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don’t have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
Jacqueline Bisset
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
Jacqueline Bisset
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
Your voice is your tool and represents you. It’s very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
Jacqueline Bisset
When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It’s like a clan. If I’m asked to people’s houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they’ll talk about other things.
Jacqueline Bisset
You need to become a good listener. As you’re working, you hear someone else’s lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
Jacqueline Bisset
I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
Jacqueline Bisset
Jeff Bezos
Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff Bezos
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
Jeff Bezos
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos
But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff Bezos
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Jeff Bezos
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Jeff Bezos
James Blish
Credit… is the only enduring testimonial to man’s confidence in man.
James Blish
Jayson Blair
If they’re all so brilliant and I’m such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn’t catch me?
Jayson Blair
I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
Jayson Blair
James W. Black
I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.
James W. Black
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
James W. Black
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
James W. Black
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
James W. Black
During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
James W. Black
Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project.
James W. Black
I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.
James W. Black
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
James W. Black
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James W. Black
I had found myself a new mission – and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James W. Black
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King’s College, London.
James W. Black
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
James W. Black
Jane Birkin
My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin
I’d rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
Jane Birkin
When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn’t bear it any more.
Jane Birkin
Any film I see at two o’clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
Jane Birkin
If I were mayor, I’d invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I’d let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
Jane Birkin
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn’t paint me anymore.
Jane Birkin
I don’t know why people keep banging on about the ’60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn’t go off with different people – I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
People always like things that seem exotic.
Jane Birkin
If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
Jane Birkin
Robert Louis Stevenson… I’m focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys’ author, but he’s not at all.
Jane Birkin
I only like boutiques.
Jane Birkin
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I’ve dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
Jane Birkin
Keep smiling – it takes 10 years off!
Jane Birkin
Jack Black
There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it.
Jack Black
I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
Jack Black
We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.
Jack Black
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It’s for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Jack Black
James Blunt
It’s taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that’s when everything started happening quickly but I think that’s always the way it is.
James Blunt
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he’d had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
James Blunt
Absolutely, it’s a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I’m in for a rollercoaster ride.
James Blunt
I guess if you’re stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
James Blunt
My life is brillant, My love is pure.
James Blunt
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
James Blunt
You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.
James Blunt
