Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.
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Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.