Brett Gelman Quotes

What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Me
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Together
  • Want

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• 'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Struggle
  • End
  • In The End

• How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Now

• Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • Family

• Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
  • Like
  • Kid

• On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Home
  • Language
  • Jump

• To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Time
  • Trade
  • Market

• Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Hope
  • Hate
  • Word

• Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• It became obvious to me that the risk that I saw, and still feel, of losing the continuity of advice from the chief medical officer who has been immersed in this since the beginning of the outbreak.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • Risk
  • Advice
  • Outbreaks

• I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Hairy
  • Humourless lesbian

• What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Stronger
  • Weaker