Bret McKenzie Quotes

I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon.

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• Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Batteries

• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Me
  • Eye

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Feel
  • Ugly

• I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Partner
  • Requirements

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Learning

• I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Insurance

• To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Up
  • Death
  • Risk

• Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Up
  • Happy

• Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Small

• I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon.

  

  Bret McKenzie
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