Brett Gelman Quotes
I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
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I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.
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The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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We compete so hard and that changes the whole ballgame.
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I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
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I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.
