John Mulaney Quotes
If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.
Quotes to Explore
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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'I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance.'
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
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If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.
