Harland Williams Quotes

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

Harland Williams

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• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Performance

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Government

• Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Brilliant
  • Actress

• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Practice
  • Key
  • Swing

• Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

  

  OMI
  • Important
  • Roots
  • Stay Focused

• I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Better
  • Right

• In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Scripts

• I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Great
  • Eye
  • Color

• Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Humanity
  • Individual
  • Crime

• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Guy
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• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Camera

• The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Grief

• If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Acting