Hannibal Buress Quotes

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

Hannibal Buress

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

  

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• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
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• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

  

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• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  

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• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

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• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

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• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

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• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

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• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
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• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

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• We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

  

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• You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass - but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing.

  

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• I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

  

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• Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

  

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• If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

  

  Steve Sabol
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• My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Dad
  • Knows
  • General