Jorma Taccone Quotes
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here.
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I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.
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You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
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I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.
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[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.
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Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.
