Chris Hardwick Quotes

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Day
  • Childhood

• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Play
  • First

• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Characters

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Success
  • Present
  • Car

• I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Paranoia

• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Economy

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Change

• What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Cinema
  • Curious

• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • People
  • Mother
  • Science

• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Rehearsing

• I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Happy

• My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Wine

• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good