Jamie Kennedy Quotes

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Theatre
  • Collaboration

• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Career
  • You
  • Analyzing

• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Best
  • Ahead

• 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

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Books

• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Living

• I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Acting

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Home
  • English

• Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Slavery
  • United States
  • Cuba

• I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Jazz
  • Ride

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Man
  • Chance

• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Summer
  • Horse

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Power
  • Miracles

• I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Country
  • House
  • Alone

• Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • Character
  • Bible

• I don't feel closeted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Feel

• I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

  

  Jamie Kennedy
  • Planning