Zach Galifianakis Quotes
The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.
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I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
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The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
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On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.
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The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.
