Colin Jost Quotes
I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.Colin Jost
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian -
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
Gary Bettman
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King -
Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
Hank Azaria -
Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
D. B. Weiss -
You want your partner to objectify you.
Patricia Arquette
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
Samuel Goldwyn -
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
Yaya Toure -
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
Hannah Simone -
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte -
I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
Jack Ma -
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
Ian MacKaye
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
Florentijn Hofman -
Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
John McCrae -
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
Anton Chekhov -
I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.
John Carpenter -
I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.
Colin Jost