Matt Besser Quotes
So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
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I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.
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We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.
