Will Ferrell Quotes

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really.

Will Ferrell

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• I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • Why
  • America

• I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Quality

• Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74.'

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Together
  • Hand

• Lord of himself,-that heritage of woe!

  

  Lord Byron

• I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Gay

• If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • She
  • Wife

• Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Success
  • Style

• The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happy

• If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Up

• My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

  

  Jeff Merkley

• I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things come to you every day. It's a slow process, and when you have to pack it into a short period of time, which you do for television, the experience is not one that I cherish. So if it's going to be television, it's really got to be the right thing.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Ethics

• I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.

  

  Lois Greenfield
  • Work
  • Mind

• Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

  

  Brent Musburger
  • House
  • Road
  • Thanks

• I don't really watch TV.

  

  Tyler Cowen

• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.

  

  Jason Kilar
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• There aren't many woman coaches in general, and I actually think it's good to have a male coach. Guys and girls have different mentalities. Girls are so stressed about everything. Guys take everything much more lightly. That's great, and it's something we have to learn from. I think one woman on a team is enough!

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Science
  • Working
  • Cancer

• If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Impressionists