Brett Gelman Quotes

I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.

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• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
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• Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

  

  Samuel Horsley
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• I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.

  

  Adam Ferguson
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• But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts.She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers,Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and findThat what you're lookin' for has been here the whole time.If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,Been here all along so why can't you see?You belong with me;You belong with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

  

  Jay Parini
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• If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.

  

  Patti Stanger

• The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.

  

  Jerome Powell

• I hate small talk! I can't do it.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
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• I feel like people with their camera phones and Twitter and Facebook, this kind of question like, 'How can I be present and also document my presence or document what I'm doing?' is something that's always on my mind, even when I'm not working as a filmmaker.

  

  Marshall Curry
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• My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
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• The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per person, not per state.

  

  Bill Foster
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• I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
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• At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
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• I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Past
  • Standup