Andrew Hudgins Quotes

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Creative
  • Pregnancy

• Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Language

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Job
  • Class

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Meet

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • House
  • Sun
  • Reaction

• One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • College

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

  

  Joschka Fischer

• When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • World
  • Nature

• I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do the style of comedy that works for them. [...] There's no kind of shrewd calculation going into the type of standup we all do. It's like David Cross is supposed to be doing the David Cross' type of standup.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Style

• Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Character
  • Help

• The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • May
  • Fun
  • Should

• Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

  

  Andrew Hudgins
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  • Thinking