Chris Farley Quotes

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

Chris Farley

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• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.

  

  Fat Joe
  • God
  • Guy
  • Walking

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Blessed
  • Successful

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Grateful
  • Working Hard

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Come

• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Different
  • Way

• Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Violence
  • After
  • Ended

• You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Long
  • Speak
  • Injustice

• Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Memory
  • Prison
  • Remarkable

• The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Government
  • Privacy

• If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Film
  • Only
  • Critic

• When I turned 21, I started losing weight - again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Decision

• Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Real
  • Obstacles
  • Imaginary

• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Rose

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

  

  Confucius
  • Love Is
  • Spoil
  • Spice

• Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Kind
  • Flattery
  • Applause

• I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

  

  Jenny Agutter
  • Life
  • She
  • Nature

• I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.

  

  Jordana Brewster

• Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

  

  Chris Farley