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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What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
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Vathek has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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When your thinking thoughts pass, you will be in the clear sky of your mind.
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I look upon A Little Bit of Luck as a very bizarre, happy, surreal memory.
