Brett Gelman Quotes

I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.

Brett Gelman

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• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Night
  • Understand

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Innocence

• I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Target

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Family
  • Why
  • Kids

• We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Any
  • Reggae
  • Websites

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Period
  • Spring
  • Edge

• Basically, nice guys can finish last.

  

  Lee Meriwether
  • Nice
  • Guys
  • Finish

• When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • People

• When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Problem
  • Ugly
  • Cost

• We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Different
  • Strange

• Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the dead. A moment, and then it was over: The diamond blazed up in my eyes, And I saw in the face of my lover A questioning, strange surprise. Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers, That heavy with fragrance bloomed near, But I didn't feel natural for hours; It was odd now, wasn't it, dear? Write soon to your fortunate Clara Who has carried the prize away, And say you'll come on when I marry; I think it will happen in May.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Child
  • Property
  • Mother`s

• I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Strange
  • Surreal
  • Hyperbolic