Brett Gelman Quotes

I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

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• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Truth
  • New

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• I like 'Rocky Horror.'

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Horror
  • Rocky

• I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Happy
  • Red
  • Wine

• I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Now

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Never
  • More
  • Over

• I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Work
  • Find
  • Hiding

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Character
  • Always
  • Service

• I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Man
  • Praise

• When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Want
  • Race
  • Pool

• It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

  

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
  • Humans
  • Race
  • Mankind

• I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Race
  • Crew