Paul O'Grady Quotes

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

Paul O'Grady

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Day
  • Moving
  • Yourself

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Color

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Part

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • World
  • Important
  • Better

• A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Always
  • Challenge

• I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Crazy

• I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Time
  • Death

• I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Nice

• Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Important
  • Rest
  • Understanding

• I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Up
  • Live
  • Home

• The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Country

• Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Writing
  • Style

• Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • Comedy

• So much of comedy starting out is you just to have to fake being in control because there is nothing less funny than someone on stage who does not seem to be driving the ship. That is the room; that is the collective experience. If the person in the middle of it doesn’t seem in control, then it all goes off the rails.

  

  Amy Miller
  • Control
  • Comedy
  • Stage

• Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Worry

• Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Calm

• Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

  

  Paul O'Grady
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Formed