Jay Mohr Quotes

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

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• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Money
  • Today
  • Want

• 'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Character
  • Success

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting

• It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• L.A.'s always been good to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Good
  • Me
  • Always

• Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • History
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Power
  • Giving

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Baby
  • Voice
  • Talk

• There is a god within us.

  

  Ovid
  • God
  • U.S.
  • Within

• Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Mother
  • Practice

• Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• This is the last time I'm asking you this,Put my name at the top of your lips.This is the last time I'm asking you whyYou break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Heart

• I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt.. .I have fourteen canvases underway.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Beautiful
  • Pink

• The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Universe

• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Cold
  • Bitter

• In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

  

  Chris Sarandon
  • People
  • Mirror

• I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

  

  Jasmine Tookes
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Fashion

• The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Done
  • Period

• People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • People
  • Decision
  • Choices

• But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

  

  Jay Mohr