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Emo Philips Quotes

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 7, 1956

Topics

Go Lucky Never Gum Get Stool

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Down Serious Say Try Talk They Say

The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it. I still can't help but ask myself... should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target me with?

Myself People Me Energy Giving Help

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

Work Car Window Pressure Push You

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

Rufus Wainwright

Myself Me Direction Artist Person

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Life Alone Prayer Stress Calm Learn

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

Best Small Long Result Achieve Turn

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Josh Hutcherson

Change People Growing Up World Treat

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

Jasmine Guinness

Me Thought Pen Wrong Paper Word

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.

Mother City Different Jobs While

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Work Joy Pride Feel Doing Sometimes

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

Anne-Marie Duff

Work Yourself Creative People Think

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.

People Magic High Heels I Can See

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