Kal Penn Quotes

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Having

• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Feelings
  • Defeat

• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Chance

• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Man
  • Food
  • Meat

• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fun

• I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Idea

• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Silly

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Control

• I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Color

• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Actresses
  • Wives
  • Commercials

• Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Media