Brett Gelman Quotes

I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners, and the Vince Gilligans. There's just so many people fearlessly making their stuff, you know?

Brett Gelman

• Cable television
• Louis C.K.s
• Lena Dunhams
• Matthew Weiners
• Vince Gilligans

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• We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Woman

• It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Life
  • Country
  • Death

• My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Running

• I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Sports
  • Religion
  • Politics

• My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

  

  James Lovegrove
  • Good
  • School
  • Boy

• Be transparent about why the termination is happening. If you did things right, it shouldn't be a surprise to the person.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Why

• The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Power
  • Party

• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  

  Jane Smiley

• You need a long-term coach to be able to win.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Long

• The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that will also hold down investment.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Financial

• You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Up
  • Good

• Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

  

  Colin Cunningham
  • Awesome

• I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• I'm just looking at Twitter like, 'Ooooooo.' No, I don't engage, but it's great. There's so many avenues to get your entertainment on; you've got so many people invested in this. I love it.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • People
  • Great

• In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.

  

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  • Future
  • Science
  • Wisdom

• If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Fall

• I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Music

• Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Sweet
  • Victory

• Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Men
  • Today
  • Sex

• In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Art
  • Ideas
  • Instance

• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Truth
  • Wrong
  • Arguments

• I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners, and the Vince Gilligans. There's just so many people fearlessly making their stuff, you know?

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Cable television
  • Louis C.K.s
  • Lena Dunhams