W. Kamau Bell Quotes

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.

W. Kamau Bell

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I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.

Joanna Coles

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Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.

Jennifer Beals

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I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

John Cusack

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My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

John Morgridge

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We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

Maurice Sendak

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I think a lot of people are too safe in the makeup industry.

Jeffree Star

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You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

Michael Gerber

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The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

Stephen Harper

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I think 'Spider-Man 2' is one of the greatest superhero movies ever made.

Tom Holland

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Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

Robert Winston

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Do you really think that Social Security disability insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security? I don't think so. It's the fastest-growing program. It grew tremendously under President Obama. It's a very wasteful program, and we want to try and fix that.

Mick Mulvaney

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My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

Dean Kamen

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