Andy Kaufman Quotes
That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'
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That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.
