Janeane Garofalo Quotes

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

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• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Give
  • Take
  • Noble

• I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Great
  • Culture

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Money
  • Free

• It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • True
  • Man

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Family
  • Guy

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

  

  Foster Friess
  • America
  • Free
  • Gun

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • End

• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Up
  • Gun
  • Down

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Game
  • Justice

• I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Women
  • Country
  • History

• I have a wonderful, supportive relationship with my family. I get lots of advice from them about all kinds of things.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Advice

• Let me be clear: Under no circumstances can Iran be allowed to have nuclear weapons. ... To ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons, we need to keep all options on the table. Let me reiterate-all options must remain on the table.

  

  John Edwards

• I'm a control freak, even though I can be scatterbrained off stage. The only way I can have fun is if I know where everything is.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Fun
  • Control

• What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Inspire

• Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Done
  • Control