J R Young Quotes

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's one savvy chick.

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.