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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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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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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I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
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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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It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.
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I've only worked with very professional people.
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Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
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Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.
