Brian Posehn Quotes

There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
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  • Daily

• Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Hand

• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• Good argument is intended to persuade another.

  

  Barry Eisler
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  • Argument
  • Another

• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Genius
  • Rich

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Dreams

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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  • Happy
  • Growth

• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Finance

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  

  Sam Mendes
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  • Movies
  • Bag

• We live in the world when we love it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Live
  • Love

• Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Natural
  • Cosmetics
  • Provinces

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
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  • Family
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• Willow: Tell me a story.Tara: Okay. Once upon a time, there was, um... a kitty. She was very little, and she was all alone, and nobody wanted her.Willow: This is a very upsetting story.

  

  Amber Benson
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  • Alone

• Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

  

  Joel Coen
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  • Kids
  • Mother

• All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • Passion

• If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

  

  Bill Shankly

• There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

  

  Brian Posehn
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