Chris Elliott Quotes

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Chris Elliott

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• I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • She
  • Friend
  • Jazz

• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Children
  • Decision

• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Having

• I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Always
  • Listening

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Success
  • Influence

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Political
  • Party

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • More
  • Noise

• The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • Way
  • Performance

• A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • College
  • Finish

• There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Information
  • Twitter
  • Blank

• I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • You
  • Racism
  • Now

• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Gay

• 'Natural selection and the emergence of mind' dialectica Vol. 32 (1978), p. 339-355; republished in Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge (1987) edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W. W. Bartley, III

  

  Karl Popper
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Friend
  • Fire

• I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Fall

• The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • House
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Suffering
  • Animal
  • Abuse

• Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Future
  • Washington

• Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

  

  Chris Elliott