Up Quotes
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Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.
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I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of my girlfriends. When I'm working late hours, I'm almost punished for it by them. It's almost absurd that I would prioritize work over catching up with my girlfriends. If I were a man, that would just come second nature.
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
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The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
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When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.
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Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.
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You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.
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Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumour, and personal malice. (p. 24)
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I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'
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On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It's more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.
