Brett Gelman Quotes

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

Brett Gelman

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Red

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • School
  • Comedy

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • She
  • Photography

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Work
  • Want
  • Style

• I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Very
  • Radio
  • Whatever

• I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • Style
  • Cats

• It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Moment
  • I Can
  • Go

• I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Religion
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

  

  Eva Green
  • Business
  • Actors
  • Surgery

• If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • People

• But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Heart
  • Running
  • Atheism

• We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Government
  • Human Rights