Hannibal Buress Quotes
Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
