Joel McHale Quotes

I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.

Joel McHale

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• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Real
  • Like
  • Myths

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Party

• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Just
  • Going

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Say
  • Africa
  • African

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Survival

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • True
  • Best
  • Optimist

• Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Jealous
  • Flames
  • Scorpion

• Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Easy
  • Determination

• We talkin' bout practice?

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Practice

• Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Character

• I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Sports
  • Confidence