Ali Farahnakian Quotes
Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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Live fast, die young.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
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This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them." That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.
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I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.
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Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.