John Ratzenberger Quotes

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

John Ratzenberger

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• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Me
  • Smart

• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • American
  • Selling

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Powerful
  • Advice
  • Example

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • History
  • Think
  • Matter

• They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Government
  • Fighting
  • Media

• As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Child

• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Forever
  • Write
  • Will

• Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • God
  • Book

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Perfection

• Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Inspired

• I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Women

• I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito

• No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Hate
  • Style
  • Depression

• Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible.

  

  James Boswell
  • Journey
  • Arithmetic
  • Cocker`s

• There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • America

• Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

  

  John Ratzenberger