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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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• My main focus is to help people through music.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• 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

• 'When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...' Praxis films, 2013

  

  Edward Snowden

• 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

• Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

  

  David Hume
  • Understanding
  • Reflection

• If you're a poor white person and your life sucks, it's easy for you to blame Hispanics cos you don't want to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm the reason my life sucks.' The Republicans do a good job exploiting that.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Minds

• The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • People
  • Education
  • Commitment

• The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Madmen
  • Simpletons

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

  

  Will Ferrell