Andy Richter Quotes

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

Andy Richter

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • History
  • Culture

• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Truth
  • Intelligence

• I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.

  

  Banks
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Powerful

• Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Country
  • Child

• Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Better
  • Strength
  • Tools

• One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Business
  • Happy

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • She
  • Humanity

• We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Looks
  • See

• Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Work
  • Myself

• The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Home
  • True

• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Gentleman

• I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • May
  • Value
  • Effort

• ‘Look at her,’ said Patrick, ‘pacing around the cage of her Valentino dress, longing to be released into her natural habitat.’

  

  Edward St Aubyn

• I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Job
  • Design

• I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch away from comedy. What I want to do is continue to grow and extend myself, so if anything, I'm adding things on.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Comedy

• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Humanity
  • Humans
  • Drawing

• It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

  

  Amy Chua
  • May
  • American
  • America

• Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.

  

  Jean-Francois Cope
  • People
  • Color
  • Racism

• I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Batman

• Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

  

  Andy Richter