Zach Galifianakis Quotes
I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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Habits change into character.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.
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People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
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When we go to the pitch, that's all we want to do - we want to win - and when the game finishes, if you win, you go home happy.
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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.
