Josh Gad Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
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The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.
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The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against.
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I love polarizing people.
