Fred Willard Quotes

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

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• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Love
  • Questions
  • Tradition

• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Like
  • Consistency

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Someone

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Average
  • Dressed

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

  

  Van Morrison
  • School
  • Me
  • Myself

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Party

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Control
  • Failure
  • Fault

• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • God
  • Words

• He was himself and he had lost the speedHe started with, and he was left behind.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Lost

• I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Faith

• After being accused of bribery (patronage jobs in exchange for being able to name candidates for District Attorney and City Controller) by Democratic City Chairman Peter Camiel, and being challenged by the Philadelphia Daily News to a lie detector test with himself, Commerce Director Harry Belinger, and Camiel, Rizzo accepted and said, "if this machine says a man lied, he lied." After the machine showed that Belinger and Rizzo were lying and Camiel was not, and he was asked about what he thought of lie detectors, he said, "that machine is full of crap.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • Accused
  • Bribery
  • Democratic City

• My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

  

  Fred Willard
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Chicago