Joe Quotes

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

Composing music is what makes me happy.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!

History is littered with dead good men

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint

As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.

Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.

Al Gore invented the Internet.

I've learned a long time ago, you don't say anything for absolutely certain.

I have never touched Hillary [Clinton] inappropriately.

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.

Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.