Michael Showalter Quotes

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

Michael Showalter

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Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

Angel Cabrera

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Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.

Michael Heisley

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I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

Jean Gabin

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For most of my films, I've had to go out and start shooting before I could get the rest of the funding. That was the case with 'Hoop Dreams,' 'Stevie' and 'The Interrupters:' We started them quietly out of Kartemquin Films, only really going to funders once we had something to show and a firm idea of what the film might be.

Steve James

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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

Ruth Rendell

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At any given time, when there is a Republican president, typically we regard that person as the leader of the Republican Party.

Mike Lee

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Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Polanyi

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

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People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.

Colin Firth

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I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

Colin Kaepernick

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I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

Bonnie Raitt

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