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

• My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Theatre

• When I explain to people what was the situation in North Korea, they think, how can such a country exist? They know North Korea is bad in some vague way, not clearly. But when we explain it, they then wonder how can a whole country be modern-day slaves?

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

  

  Chris Pine

• The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Service
  • Enough

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

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

  

  Chris Farley