Faith Ford Quotes

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Being
  • Ever
  • Resent

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Bitter

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Myself

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Trying
  • Challenges
  • Evidence

• What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Rock
  • Poetry

• Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

  

  Saadi
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Comedy
  • Everybody
  • Can

• I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a way that a politician can't because they'll lose their constituency.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Time
  • History
  • Culture

• My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Business
  • Future
  • Comedy