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George Hickenlooper Quotes

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.

George Hickenlooper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1963 - October 29, 2010

Topics

Good Power People Good People Get

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise, it just becomes long and rambling, indulgent. So I think you need both, frankly.

Melissa McCarthy

Great Think Comedy Long You Living

Roy Jones and Muhammad Ali are the inspiration for my style of fighting.

Style Fighting Inspiration Muhammad

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

End You Lose Up Spontaneity Your

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Life Faith Broken People View Kind

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

Peaceful Nothing Christmas Everything

The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.

Security Disability Up Social Going

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?'

Work Time Myself Man Me Speak

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne

Conversation Boring More Where Than

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

Funny You Say Want Class Out

It's one of my favourite types of comedy, just the awkward moments on camera. For many people, it's unbearable to watch, but I love seeing it when it's done right.

Love People Comedy Camera Moments

I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.

Energy Powerful Train Incredible

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Fear Courage Without Being Just

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