Matt Besser Quotes

I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.

Matt Besser

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Loved

• Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • King
  • Leader
  • Values

• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Beginning

• It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Long
  • May
  • Financial

• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Trying
  • Best
  • Elephant

• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Work
  • Way
  • Feel

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Way

• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Accountability
  • Corrupt

• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

  

  Kate Williams
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Grandfather

• I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Think

• The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Money
  • Business

• Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Simple

• Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Strong

• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Door

• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  

  James Buchan
  • Long
  • Money
  • Universe

• Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Important
  • Food

• Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Fun

• Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Doctor
  • Gynacologist
  • Good Press

• I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.

  

  Matt Besser