#ali

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#came #commercialization #defense #defense mechanism #i

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#because #black #country #down #everything

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#besides #buddy #caused #dead #felt

Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?' ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#canada #i #like #meet #never

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#books #court #early #high #high quality

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#comforts #days #difficult #edge #hard

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#art #bigger #contemporary #contemporary art #how

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#declined #enthusiasm #everything #grandma #hand

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies. ↗

— Brion James

#california #cowboys #ever #farm #gangsters

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. ↗

— William James

#accomplished #accordingly #act #amazed #attitude