Patton Oswalt Quotes

The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.

Patton Oswalt

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GreatMistakePeopleFriendsProblem

Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing.

Jennifer Coolidge

KindMoreJustFarThingStandup

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

Jeffrey Zeldman

BusinessThinkShouldArchitects

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

Jeff Vandermeer

WorkMotherArtStrongChooseSee

I always try and keep a jacket from everything I do. I've still got my original coat from 'Snatch' and my jacket from 'This Is England'.

Stephen Graham

TryJacketAlwaysEverythingCoat

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

Steven Rodney McQueen

LiveTogetherHairMakeupMindset

Our focus should be on the more than 70 cures and treatments that have been successfully produced from other forms of stem cell research that do not destroy a human life.

Trent Franks

LifeFocusResearchMoreHumanBeen

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.

Rupert Murdoch

LivePeopleMeAppreciateYouDown

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

Mat Kearney

GoodThoughtWayFirstRadioFound

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Roxane Gay

GreatArtPeopleAppreciateI Can

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

Mitt Romney

SafetyRepairPoorFixNeedsNet

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Jonathan Haidt

SchoolResearchLateGoalMoral

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

Demian Bichir

TimeExperienceYouGoWantWay

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