Michael Spiller Quotes
For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.Michael Spiller
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale -
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
Tad Williams -
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama -
In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Garth Brooks -
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
Sam Raimi -
No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
Irwin Redlener -
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali -
Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
Becky G -
I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
Harland Williams -
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
Oliver Tambo
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck -
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken -
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
Cicely Tyson -
All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.
Elvis Stojko -
If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.
Jameela Jamil -
I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.
Elizabeth Debicki
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Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
Pratibha Patil -
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
Edmund Hillary -
I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.
Olivier Theyskens -
The unregulated migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from terrorist safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has created a very difficult threat environment for Europe.
Pete Hoekstra -
I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.
Michael Spiller