Howie Mandel Quotes
I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.
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I'm a zero.
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The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.
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You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.
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To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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It takes me ages to write stuff.
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The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.
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We were raised in a family that had high aspirations for their children, and those high aspirations tended to be along the lines of service and high-minded beliefs, living up to your responsibilities. Both my Danforth grandparents admired service very much.
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I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
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I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
