Colin Jost Quotes
I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.Colin Jost
Quotes to Explore
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
Talcott Parsons -
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison -
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
Patricia Ireland -
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert -
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
Damon Galgut -
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
Taylor Swift -
I always have to be writing.
Taylor Swift -
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
Taylor Negron -
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
Laura Marano
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White -
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
Sam Kinison -
Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
Carine Roitfeld -
Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
Taylor Swift -
Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
Victor LaValle -
I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
Sam Altman
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You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.
George Pataki -
The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.
Julia Roberts -
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.
F. Gary Gray -
As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abuse you just can't seem to find in daily life. The stage is a performer's domain. You protect that domain. You are not on stage to take what's given just 'cause you're getting paid. If you are attacked, you retaliate.
John Ridley -
I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.
Colin Jost