Chris Farley Quotes

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

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• I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • True
  • Care
  • Thought

• Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Team
  • Trust

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Failing
  • Organizations

• For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Business
  • Flexible
  • Reliable

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Book
  • First
  • Concern

• Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Most
  • Occasions
  • Kinds

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Want
  • You
  • Mystery

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to take any more stupid questions about Donald Trump. It's not what I focus on every day.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Stupid

• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Die
  • Question
  • Old

• It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Man has nothing else to do but surrender - in deep trust, in deep love. Don’t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Trust
  • Deep

• Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Competition

• You sometimes get a thrill at knowing where you are. You’re often filled with wonder, but more often you are puzzled. You are reminded, again and yet again, of how insignificant you are. And there are times when you forget that you are human. You’re just a blob of life-brother to everything that ever existed or ever will exist.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Brother

• Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for 'vulgarity'; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Education

• I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music

• God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Power
  • Father

• Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

  

  Chris Farley