Brett Gelman Quotes
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Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.
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If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?
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We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.
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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
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I would prefer to be in a place where I'm appreciated.
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This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.
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When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.
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And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
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No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
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It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
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I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
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All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.
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I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.
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I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.
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Tiger king is quite possibly the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
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It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
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Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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I look upon A Little Bit of Luck as a very bizarre, happy, surreal memory.
