Joey Skaggs Quotes

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

Joey Skaggs

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• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Past
  • Wall
  • Advertising

• All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Wisdom
  • Does
  • Delhi

• I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nice

• Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Long
  • Day
  • Sad

• I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Independent

• I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Soul

• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Poetry
  • Books
  • Living

• I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • New
  • New York
  • Club

• I believe in being an innovator.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Believe
  • Being
  • I Believe

• If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Nature
  • Eyes
  • Inspiration

• 'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Failure

• And we hold these truths to be self-evident:Number one- George W. Bush is not president.Number two- America is not a true democracy.And, Number three- the media is not fooling me.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • America
  • True
  • Democracy

• With just enough of learning to misquote.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Learning

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • God
  • May
  • Tree

• In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,That snores when you pick it up.If the ghost cries, they carry itTo their lips and soothe it to sleepWith sounds. And yet, they wake it upDeliberately, by tickling with a finger.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Up

• As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Art
  • Drama

• I was terrible at school.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • School

• Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

  

  Daryn Kagan
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Home
  • Movie

• In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • America
  • Hate
  • Proud

• We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

  

  Joey Skaggs