Kenan Thompson Quotes

I never really try to over-promote myself; I never have.

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• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Life
  • Identity
  • My Life

• Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Sleep
  • Feel
  • Look

• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Mom
  • New
  • Times Square

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Nice

• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Powerful
  • Unique
  • Criticism

• I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Try
  • Face
  • Dress

• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Play
  • Chance

• So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Done
  • Story
  • Find

• The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Different
  • Like

• If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • Free
  • Myself

• The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Choices

• I'm not a designer, nor do I fancy myself a designer.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Myself
  • Designer
  • Fancy

• The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • May
  • Character

• The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Sun

• When women entered the workplace, many men were mentors to them and, in turn, also learned to respect women’s unique contributions (for example, their listening and facilitative skills). Now, as we give men responsibilities to care for children, women must be among the mentors, and we must also learn to respect men’s unique contributions.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Memory

• I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Fear

• My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes.

  

  Dee Bradley Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Difficult

• What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Done
  • Future
  • Past

• I never really try to over-promote myself; I never have.

  

  Kenan Thompson