Adam Carolla Quotes

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dance

• When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Community
  • Single

• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • School
  • Family

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Book
  • Write

• Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Always

• Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Practice

• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Acting

• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Historian
  • Interpretation
  • Dramatist

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

  

  Nadine Gordimer

• I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Just
  • Realist
  • Sexist