Zach Galifianakis Quotes
The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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I don't think about records.
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There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
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You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
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The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.
