Hannibal Buress Quotes
I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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War is over if you want it.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.
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We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
