Anthony Jeselnik Quotes
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
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When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
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Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.
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When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
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I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
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I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
