Ian Frazier Quotes

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Ian Frazier

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Islamic

• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Hate

• I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Model

• Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • Free
  • Speech

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Powerful
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

  

  Edmund White
  • God
  • Story
  • Feathers

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Me
  • Progress

• I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Live
  • Heart

• Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Trying
  • Friend

• I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Kids

• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance