Bill Konigsberg Quotes

It’s not, like, denial? In the GSA we joke that bi guys are just gay guys who aren’t ready to admit it yet.

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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Life
  • Country
  • Free

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
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• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Imagine

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Conqueror

• When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Moment
  • Emotion
  • Piano

• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Expect

• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Ireland

• I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Great
  • You
  • Musicians

• With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Normal
  • Birds
  • Few

• Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Many
  • Mental

• War is not a thing one wants.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Thing
  • Wants

• There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Movie
  • Powerful
  • Decision

• Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Accomplish

• Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Life
  • God
  • Pray

• I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

  

  Scott Pruett
  • Wife
  • Joke
  • Household

• Everything was meant to wind people up in Make It Big. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

  

  George Michael
  • People
  • Pleasure
  • Joke

• There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Home
  • Creates
  • Exit

• It’s not, like, denial? In the GSA we joke that bi guys are just gay guys who aren’t ready to admit it yet.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Joke
  • Admit
  • Denial