J. J. Abrams Quotes

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

I like kissing people because it's funny.

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

It is never very crowded at the front.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

They can say I have an opinion about something.

The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.