Brett Gelman Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.
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Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
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The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer.
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Don't be proud of me. Do something to make yourself proud of yourself.
