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Andy Kaufman Quotes

I'm from Hollywood. That's where we make movies and TV shows... I'm not from down here in men-fus ten-uh-see, okay?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984

Topics

Down Movies Hollywood Okay Here TV

Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.

Life Live Justice American My Life

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Life Music Respect People My Life

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

Life Think My Life Idiot Look Back

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

Sigourney Weaver

Father Husband Church Hawaii House

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

People Me Someone Movies Guy Like

Trying to sound good at 10 A.M. is the worst.

Good Trying Worst Sound

On Saturday morning, I like to get up early and go out - TV is banned!

Debra Stephenson

Morning Saturday Early Go Out Up

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

Guitar Write Piano Read Percussion

For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as well as actors in a cosmic crusade. For others, a 'cognitive opening' to militant Islam was often precipitated by a personal disappointment or loss.

Disappointment Story Loss Personal

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

Sebastian Thrun

Time Child Building Lego Complex

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Work Money You More Out Your

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

Tullian Tchividjian

Effort Political Years Little Gain

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