Molly Shannon Quotes

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

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• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hate
  • Change
  • Win

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Real
  • Human

• I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy

• I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Important
  • History
  • Beginning

• I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.

  

  Bill Condon
  • War
  • Monster

• Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Trying
  • Song

• Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

  

  James Buchan
  • Violence
  • Profound

• If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Up
  • Money
  • Independent

• The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Long
  • Cool

• The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.

  

  John Grant
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Important
  • Small

• My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

  

  Molly Shannon
  • College
  • Dramatic