Janeane Garofalo Quotes

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.

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• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Lovely

• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  

  Ian St. John
  • People
  • House
  • Dance

• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Money
  • Free
  • Me

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Law

• A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Weird

• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Eyes
  • Fire
  • Soldiers

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• I have a special interest in children who have lost a parent or loved one in the line of duty as they served their country as a police officer, firefighter, federal agent or member of the military, but children all over the word need help and an opportunity to flourish.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Country
  • Children
  • Help

• We Are All in the Same Boat.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Boat

• You should be able to choose which hospital you go to.

  

  Andrew Lansley

• I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • People
  • Great
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• I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
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