Molly Shannon Quotes
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
Adam Davidson -
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
Ted Williams -
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
Karl Pilkington -
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler -
One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
Larry Wilmore
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
Imre Kertesz -
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
Orson Pratt -
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
E. O. Wilson -
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg -
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
Rachel Sklar -
I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
Indiana Evans
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson -
This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
Dambisa Moyo -
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
Kate Williams -
I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
J. K. Simmons -
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. Perelman -
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I wanted to have a free life.
Nadia Comaneci -
I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
Bebe Rexha -
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings -
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
Dan Jenkins -
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I want to do something I feel like I can do.
Molly Shannon