Ben Falcone Quotes

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Question
  • Moral

• I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Know

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Grow

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Remember
  • Election
  • Propaganda

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Career
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • May
  • Words

• Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

  

  Diego Luna
  • School
  • Remember
  • Happy

• The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.

  

  William Whewell
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Pride

• I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

  

  Ben Falcone
  • Giving
  • Amazing
  • Weird