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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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence -
It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
Edward Witten -
I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.
Rick Astley -
Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.
Jennifer Coolidge -
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