Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I think everyone who saw Alfred Hitchcock Psycho movie, as I did when I was young, was impacted. The shower scene is nuts. It still is, and I think what's wonderful about it is that it's universal. People understand the darkness and the violence, and it's shocking.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
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They say that spring Means just one thing To little lovebirds. We're not above birds, Lets misbehave.
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A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
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People don't take enough advantage of the refrigerator door.
