Sam Yagan Quotes
I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I'm a good driver.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it.
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Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.
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You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.
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In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
