Jeff Baena Quotes
When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
Quotes to Explore
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.
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We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
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When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
