Jane Lynch Quotes

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

Jane Lynch

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• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Know
  • Coffee

• There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Done
  • You
  • Thing

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Day
  • Years
  • Skating

• I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Think
  • Doing

• Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • War
  • Success
  • Greatness

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Voice
  • Try

• In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Life
  • America
  • Insurance

• To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Positive

• You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • People
  • Work

• I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Hope

• I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Parents
  • Gratitude
  • Grandparents

• One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Regret

• Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Imagination
  • Halloween

• It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Growing

• If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Thinking
  • Area
  • Emissions

• I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Fear
  • Suffer
  • Phobias

• I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

  

  Jane Lynch