W. Kamau Bell Quotes

When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this? No? Alright.' I was just trying to be funny about anything.

W. Kamau Bell

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If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Anderson Silva

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Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

Angie Martinez

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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

Merle Haggard

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I feel flattered that people like the way I look, but it doesn't help you win points.

Ana Ivanovic

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I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

Simon McBurney

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What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

Robert Dallek

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As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Dinaw Mengestu

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I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

Cobie Smulders

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When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.

Brandi Carlile

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No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

Sydney Pollack

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I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

Tom Brady

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