Mike Scully Quotes

I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

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• I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
  • You
  • Blessing

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.

  

  Fleur East
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Big

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Heart
  • Hard
  • Head

• I want to do all roles. The sky's the limit.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Want
  • Sky
  • Limit

• We need to tackle energy poverty.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Poverty
  • Need

• I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Career
  • Education
  • Knowledge

• Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Doing

• I have to tell you, it's very boring, but before I did yoga, I was a stand-up comedian who can't stand up. And now I can stand on my head.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Up
  • Yoga

• Fashion needs to be worn.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Fashion

• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Country
  • Man

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.

  

  David Ray Griffin
  • Support
  • Memories
  • Perception

• I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

  

  Mike Scully
  • Country
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  • Jokes