Nikki Glaser Quotes

I was inspired by people telling me I should be a comedian. I tried it and had a really good first set, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do this forever'.

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• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
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• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
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  • Over

• First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Real
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• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
  • Animal
  • Human

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
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• Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Justice
  • Train
  • Late

• Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Character
  • Mad

• I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Strong
  • Politics
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• I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
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• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Day
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• Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Free
  • Democracy

• The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Daily

• Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

  

  Adrian Lyne
  • Time

• In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.

  

  Anna Kendrick

• I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Good

• It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.

  

  William Kircher
  • Work
  • Career
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• I was inspired by people telling me I should be a comedian. I tried it and had a really good first set, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do this forever'.

  

  Nikki Glaser
  • People
  • Inspire
  • Comedian