Jason Sudeikis Quotes

You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Family
  • Society
  • Personality

• Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Future
  • Past
  • Fight

• The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Culture
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Try

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • World
  • Future
  • Want

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Absurd

• I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Family

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Job
  • Career
  • Funny

• It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital, and more prayers to Heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be to God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Church

• To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Sympathy
  • Psalms

• Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Writing

• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Girl
  • Classy

• One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Writing
  • Money
  • College

• It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Time
  • Long

• If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Food
  • Dumb
  • Birthday

• I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Time
  • Night

• Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Feeling
  • Nice

• Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it's one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I've seen the list of the people, and it's pretty special.

  

  Daniel Nestor
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Tennis

• I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Book
  • Weird

• You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

  

  Jason Sudeikis