Joe Flaherty Quotes

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

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• I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

  

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

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• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

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• I need instant gratification.

  

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• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

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• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

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• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

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• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

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• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

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• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

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• It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

  

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• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

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• That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

  

  Joe Flaherty
  • City
  • Intelligent
  • Wrestling