John Mulaney Quotes
I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
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To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.
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It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.
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I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
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I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.
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The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.
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Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.
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I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.
