John Mulaney Quotes
It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
