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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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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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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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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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 think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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Thought is just not something objective in our heads. Thought is power – real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill – hence our responsibility to chose.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
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The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
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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.
