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Adam DeVine Quotes

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 6, 1983

Topics

Life Hate Trying You Want Decide

America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

Time Roads Road America Tax Crisis

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

Said Done Way Activism Define Even

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

Good People Writing Trying Intention

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Education Heart Teacher Teachers Own

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

Guitar You Back Play Know Hold

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Childhood Wife World Know Said Nice

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Life Death Saying Hands Easy You

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

Cool Small Face Doing You Know

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Church Never Pastor Been Staff

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

Life Table Way Everything Needs Our

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.

Good Friend Mother Hero Influence

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

Motto Poetry World Real Safe Things

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