Hannibal Buress Quotes
I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
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I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
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Winning isn't the end of the world
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
