Jeff Dunham Quotes

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

Jeff Dunham

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• I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Know
  • Changed
  • How

• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Always
  • Try

• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Should
  • Look

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Bad
  • Dad
  • Day

• I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Small
  • Tax

• The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Taken
  • Development
  • Youth

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• What's important to me is people just being people.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Found
  • Probability

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nice

• I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Great
  • Education
  • Working

• I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Up
  • Love
  • You

• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • God

• Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• I have a direct line with Obama. It's a crucial link. And I can put Spain in the spotlight.

  

  James Costos

• When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Wife
  • Drug

• My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Conflict
  • Interwoven
  • Queerness

• A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

  

  Jeff Dunham