Jules Shear Quotes

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Live fast, die young.

We should not, however, proceed with the adventure simply because we are wound up and cannot stop.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?