Keegan-Michael Key Quotes

I'm a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell - there's about seven of them - and of course, there's variations on those stories, and they can take place in infinite places.

Keegan-Michael Key

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• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Family
  • School
  • Home

• The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Organization
  • New
  • Special

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Singing
  • Discipline
  • Making

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Future
  • Science

• I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • Love
  • Done

• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Nobody
  • Believes
  • Till

• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Music
  • Believe

• Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Great
  • God
  • Eyes

• One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I think it's really cool. Also, in my music, I'm not afraid to say what I want to say. I also think it's relatable for other girls out there.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Single

• The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Support
  • Doing

• Music should always be first.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Always
  • First

• The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Experience
  • Lead
  • Processes

• Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Stories
  • Novel
  • Figures

• On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

  

  Maria Semple

• 'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Done
  • Business
  • Sad

• I'm a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell - there's about seven of them - and of course, there's variations on those stories, and they can take place in infinite places.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key