Andrew Kaufman Quotes
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Golf is not easy.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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Always stay true to yourselves.
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I was lucky to have amazing mentors like Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson.
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It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.
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With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.
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Why do bad things happen to good people?Because it makes a good story.
