Jeff Dunham Quotes
There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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The media is controlled.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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You have your real life and then you have your work.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
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Beaten paths are for beaten men.
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Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
