W. Kamau Bell Quotes
If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.
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It used to be you wanted to marry up.
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I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'
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One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
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I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.
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If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.
