Zach Galifianakis Quotes

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Long
  • I Can
  • Knit

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • Violence

• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• Life started getting good when I started making money.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Sweet

• Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Men
  • Why

• We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People

• I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

  

  John Avlon
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  • Live
  • Independent

• Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Important
  • Reading
  • Serious

• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
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