Garry Shandling Quotes

My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

Garry Shandling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1949 - March 24, 2016

Topics

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It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

John Dos Passos

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My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

Amber Riley

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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Brokaw

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I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Rose Schneiderman

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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Lorne Michaels

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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Jonathan Ames

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It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

Aretha Franklin

YouKnowWantWayVerySatisfying

When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.

Arjen Robben

GoodPowerFeel GoodFeelPaceFit

A cheese dip is good - it's for when you're like, 'You know what, I've had a long day. I'm just gonna eat a big bowl of cheese, and I'm not gonna care about it.'

Antoni Porowski

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Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Punit Renjen

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Timothy Leary

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To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Richard Dawkins

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