Will Ferrell Quotes

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

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• I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

  

  Edmund White
  • Book
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Poets
  • Influenced
  • Painters

• There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Lives
  • Musicians

• So I just play the character, I play the lines.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Character
  • Play
  • Lines

• La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Fearless

• Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Work

• Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Lost

• All my life, I've been a man of peace, working for peace, striving for peace, negotiating for peace. I've been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man and I'm still the same man with the same convictions, the same devotion to peace. I couldn't be other even if I wished. But I'm utterly convinced that the action we have taken is right.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Life
  • Action
  • Peace

• That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Why
  • May
  • Football

• Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• We have to find a way that every Coloradan can participate in our economic growth and feel that all the changes that are occurring are working to their benefit rather than their detriment.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Growth

• Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • High
  • Stock

• I've made it clear I like Chicago.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Chicago

• I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

  

  Jeff Gordon

• When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

  

  Billy Eckstine

• I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

  

  Chris Buck
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Life
  • She
  • Movie

• We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sun

• I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Think
  • Education
  • Finish

• America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • America
  • Help

• One always saw and sees through pretense.

  

  Paul Scott
  • Sees
  • Pretense

• I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

  

  Will Ferrell