Kevin Nealon Quotes
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I started 'The Daily Show' when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.
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If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
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I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
