Matt Besser Quotes
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.Matt Besser
Quotes to Explore
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie -
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracian -
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
Carlo Ratti -
The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
Maelle Gavet -
When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
Barbara Kruger -
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
Daley Thompson -
I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
Raina Telgemeier -
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert -
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
Kalpana Chawla
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
Barton Booth -
I'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
Sam Worthington -
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
Laura Marano -
We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
Abraham Verghese
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I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.
Ian MacKaye -
I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!
Kamal Haasan -
Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
Zainab Salbi -
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
Cheryl Hayashi -
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
Dorothy Hamill -
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
Matt Besser