John Mulaney Quotes
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I don't do negative things.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Love is the one wild card.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
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It helps over time to lift our national standard ... but AP doesn't reach all students. Indeed, the challenge of high schools is, first of all, reducing a dropout rate that, nationally, is almost one-third.
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
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I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.
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As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.
