John Mulaney Quotes
You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
Quotes to Explore
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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I love '80s horror.
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In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag- It's so elegant So intelligent
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
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I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.
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My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
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You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
