John Mulaney Quotes
Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.
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I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.
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Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.
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For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
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Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.
