#lit

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#actually #bank #citibank #did #get

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) ↗

— Jean Calvin

#calvin #faith #humility #ignorance #knowledge

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#director #every #i #i think #little

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#breakout #chances #character #develop #get

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

#blank canvas #canvas #full #jazz #possibilities

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#defensive #homosexual #hopelessly #ideal #like

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#concert #done #fact #festival #i

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beautiful #comes #davis #forms #i

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#columbia #ended #films #i #literature

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#had #hour #i #kind #little