Hari Kondabolu Quotes
Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
