Daniel Handler Quotes
I'm happier than a pig eating bacon!' Count Olaf cried. 'I'm tickled pinker than a sun-burned Caucasian! I'm in higher spirits than a brand-new graveyard! I'm so happy-go-lucky that lucky and happy people are going to beat me with sticks out of pure, unbridled jealousy!Daniel Handler
Quotes to Explore
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
Adam Draper -
I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
Mahesh Babu -
I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
Forest Whitaker -
I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
Yuri Lowenthal -
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray -
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
Zig Ziglar
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
Florence Nightingale -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
J. Maarten Troost -
We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein -
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
J. K. Simmons
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis -
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
Ram Charan -
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
J. G. Ballard -
Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
Ian Lustick -
It's tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that's how I keep the nerves from kicking in.
Charlotte Dujardin -
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
Alistair Cooke -
Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.
David Chase -
I'm happier than a pig eating bacon!' Count Olaf cried. 'I'm tickled pinker than a sun-burned Caucasian! I'm in higher spirits than a brand-new graveyard! I'm so happy-go-lucky that lucky and happy people are going to beat me with sticks out of pure, unbridled jealousy!
Daniel Handler