Greg Giraldo Quotes

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

Greg Giraldo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1965 - September 29, 2010

Topics

FunnySmartMeCoolLaughYou

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

John Ciardi

TrustFeelPenDownMoreHim

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Anna Deavere Smith

LifeLiveRespectCultureStrong

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.

Trent Reznor

FriendPeopleMeNightSmallBorn

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Ry Cooder

ChanceThinkPushYouAlwaysGet

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Mary Lambert

WorkJobPoetryPageStriveWord

I run four times a week.

Jason Flemyng

WeekRunFourTimes

Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.

Do Won Chang

PeopleTargetYoungOld PeopleOld

What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!

Bria Skonberg

MusicMeWorldNewJazzHard

Home advantage gives you an advantage.

Bobby Robson

HomeYouAdvantageGives

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

GodMistakeWithoutTellMustAble

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

Alice Waters

WorkFoodGrowPriceUnderstand

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

William Robertson Smith

FactsCommon SensePhilosophyBe True

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