Paul Provenza Quotes

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

Paul Provenza

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Player
  • Phone

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Say
  • Lose

• Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Success
  • Summer
  • Weather

• Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Stop
  • Existence

• I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

  

  Ian Cameron Esslemont
  • People
  • Important
  • Truth

• A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Women
  • Children
  • Friends

• No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Power
  • Pride

• The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Glances
  • Cocktails
  • Amorous

• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Fall
  • Block

• Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Killing
  • Believed
  • Labour

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

  

  Evelyn Ashford
  • People
  • Running
  • Feels

• It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Profound

• For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Comedian

• As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

  

  Paul Provenza
  • Comedian
  • Reporter
  • Disasters