Brett Gelman Quotes
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
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The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
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If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
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I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK
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We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.
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Talking is not action. Don't just look at what you say. Look at how you socialize.
