Hannibal Buress Quotes

I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

Hannibal Buress

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SmileCommunityPeopleNightThink

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Joel Robuchon

RespectChefYouWantOthersNeed

Whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens.

Robert Kraft

TeamYouPersonKnowNeverGet

I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.'

Robert Herjavec

LifeSleepEndSomeoneWishEnough

It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too far out on a limb with no way to return.

Amy Klobuchar

FinancialWrongWaySoundSameOut

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

Troy Garity

MotherAgeWorldUnderstandingOut

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

Trevor Phillips

WorkCommunityMeLawSayingRules

I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.

Trevor Rabin

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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Lois Lowry

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Even if you're an optimist, there's some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, 'This isn't gonna happen. This isn't gonna happen.' I really felt that way through the process of 'Korra' because I knew 'Avatar,' and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.

Janet Varney

ProcessYouGoWayOptimistUp

Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.

Jasmila Zbanic

WomenTimeArtMoneyMenFilmmaking

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Don Johnson

RelationshipResponsibilityDayI Can

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

Dayananda Saraswati

GoodTruthHappyWiseVirtueOthers

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