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

• I'd like to win an Oscar.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Win
  • Oscar

• 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'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Everyone

• 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

• The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Smart

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

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • People
  • Work

• He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Desires
  • Face to Face

• Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

  

  Arthur Hiller
  • Wife
  • Walking
  • Dying

• That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Know
  • Easy
  • Comfort

• I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.

  

  Beji Caid Essebsi
  • Power
  • Political
  • Democracy

• I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Feel Good
  • Look Good

• 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