Billy Gardell Quotes

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

Billy Gardell

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• If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • You
  • Selfish

• Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Different
  • She

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

  

  LaToya London
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Quiet

• I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • May
  • High

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Risk

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Champion
  • Winner
  • Mentality

• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Wish
  • Treat

• Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

  

  Edmund Waller

• Jehovah was the tribal god of Israel. Fortunately he was stronger and more terrible than the gods of the neighboring tribes, so that he was able to drive them out and give their land to his own people, but he was not fundamentally different from them and they were believed to be quite as real as Jehovah.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

  

  Karl Popper
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Great
  • She
  • Strong

• I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Dream

• I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Food

• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Memories

• Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

  

  Billy Gardell