Brett Gelman Quotes

I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

Brett Gelman

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• The migration wave can be stopped.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Wave
  • Stopped
  • Migration

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • You

• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • House
  • Things

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Moment

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Like

• I'm in good shape.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Shape

• I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Exploration

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trying

• Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Time
  • Age
  • Sex

• Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

  

  L. David Mech

• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Dirty

• But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Believe
  • Doctors
  • Pills

• Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Biological System

• Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

  

  Aristotle
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Speech

• The whole end of speech is to be understood.

  

  Confucius
  • Speech
  • Understood

• To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Answers
  • Speech
  • Questioning

• I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Speech
  • Viewpoint