Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Carrie Brownstein

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

Don Cornelius

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Gary Gallegos

It doesn't necessarily have to be one to the exclusion of the other.

Lex McCorvey

There is a general feeling that this is more often referred to as an 'open space district' to the exclusion of agricultural preservation. Our feeling is that it has strayed from its original intent." ()

Michael Chertoff

Obviously, people feel strongly about their home communities and they tend to see their own risks to the exclusion of others. Our job is to balance.

David Sands

For a 'married filing-jointly' couple, who've lived in the home two out of the last five years, the exclusion from gain would be about $500,000. For those who are single, $250,000.

Moby

To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

Lily Tomlin

I'd rather have the illusion that (politicians) had ideas and high inspirations and principals, that they foster something in people that makes them want to be part of it instead of all of this exclusion stuff, which is really horrible. Everyone's not the same.

Mason Cooley

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

Doug Jones

The scope of his new proposal has grown so much that there's no way we can do it with a Categorical Exclusion (CE).

Lou Reed

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.