Keith Olbermann Quotes

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

Keith Olbermann

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• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Course
  • Soak

• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Want

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Future
  • College

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Anything

• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • School
  • Family
  • English

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Myself

• It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Capitalism

• Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mountain

• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Decision
  • Advice

• I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Universe

• I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Different
  • Why
  • Diversity

• We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Come
  • Turns

• In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.

  

  Danielle Darrieux
  • Alone

• There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually find kind of appalling. You know, "I'm clever, I can do something, and you don't know what it is." And that instills in the audience the idea that, "Yes, I do. You're not that clever."

  

  Ricky Jay
  • People
  • Kind
  • Magic

• As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

  

  Keith Olbermann