Joey Skaggs Quotes
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.Joey Skaggs
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
J. B. Smoove -
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
Carli Lloyd -
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
Barrett Foa
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
H. Rap Brown -
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
Ziggy Marley -
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen -
We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. Philippe Rushton -
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
Sam Harris -
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
Laura Kightlinger -
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott -
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton -
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Adam Grant
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
Patrick Ness -
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.
John Roger Stephens -
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
Liev Schreiber -
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.
Maria Cantwell -
I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.
Andy Andrews -
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
Joey Skaggs