#your

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ↗

— William James

#another #being #currents #dynamic #effective

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#cash #credit #credit card #get #machine

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? ↗

— Judith Jamison

#agenda #badly #create #go #going

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#both sides #got #lifetime #look #mountain

They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#american express #better #bring #card #cards

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#hard #holds #imagine #knife #like

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

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#art #back #contact #ensemble #experience

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#because #desire #early #express #interesting

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover