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.

Ali Farahnakian

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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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Thought
  • Fast

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• I'm not making films just to be bold.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Just
  • Bold
  • Making

• I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Car
  • Fast

• 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.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Running
  • Forward
  • Fast

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Up
  • American
  • Wanted

• My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

  

  Becky G
  • Always
  • Making
  • Taught

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Thought
  • Fly
  • Fast

• 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.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Teaching
  • Most
  • Did

• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Hard
  • Lines

• 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.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling to bring a flash of an idea to the page, or notice a student's hands shaking as they read something they wrote out loud for the first time, it keeps things in perspective. How vulnerable we all are. How hard it can be to open the door.

  

  Hannah Tinti
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Perspective

• The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

  

  Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Teaching
  • Reasons
  • True Religion

• If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you know you're gonna make money, then I don't know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things.

  

  Bishop Nehru
  • People
  • Things
  • Making

• Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Children

• As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.

  

  Vernon Reid
  • Life
  • Guitar
  • Activity

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

  

  Ali Farahnakian
  • Teaching
  • Making
  • Fast