Michael Showalter Quotes

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

Michael Showalter

Recitation: by Male by Female

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We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.

Joe Lonsdale

GoalsTechnologyCommunityAchieve

I had an amazing experience being on a hit show for Showtime, doing 'Queer as Folk', and impacting things socially, like helping change hearts and minds. It's such a big chapter of my life.

Robert Gant

LifeChangeExperienceAmazingDoing

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

Jeff Kinney

WorkHobbyWeekendsOnlyJustBooks

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

John Tesh

MusicWorldPerformanceSongWorship

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

Rob Gronkowski

I AmPeopleThinkPartyGoBoy

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?'

Mike Gravel

GodTimeRestHellYouKnow

It's a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.

Michel Hazanavicius

DreamTryDirectorStudioMovie

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

Julia Sweeney

TryingAtheistGetWholeOffRacket

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

Janice Dickinson

MottoMoneyMy MottoMuchEmphasis

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

Janine di Giovanni

BeautifulPeopleCityLivingSide

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Jolene Blalock

MenCoolBrilliantAlmostInsane

I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.

Diego Godin

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