Dwayne Johnson Quotes

My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

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• Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Always
  • Vision

• I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Best
  • Always

• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Quiet

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Success
  • Contribution
  • Offended

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Unknown
  • Surface
  • Flesh

• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Real
  • Political
  • Religious

• People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • People
  • Great
  • Silence

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Family
  • Man

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Face

• I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

  

  Aron Ralston
  • Beautiful
  • Walking

• We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Hand

• Now if the will of God is so important, it has to be proved. And now through Sahaja Yoga, after the breaking of the Sahasrara, you have now for the first time felt the will of God, which is such an important thing.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Firsts
  • Ifs
  • Felt

• My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Comedy