All Quotes

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'
‐‐ Trevor Noah

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.
‐‐ Judah Friedlander

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.
‐‐ Nicholas Stoller

As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.
‐‐ Jo Brand

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.
‐‐ Craig Robinson

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.
‐‐ Brian Posehn

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
‐‐ Billy Gardell

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
‐‐ Zach Galifianakis

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.
‐‐ James Comey

As a company dedicated to creating fun and affordable toys for children, everyone at Ty is proud to play a small part in helping children in need have a happy holiday. We are proud to be associated with Toys for Tots and congratulate our Marines for a job well done.
‐‐ Ty Warner

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.
‐‐ John Mackey

As a company, we don't contribute to any cause except noncontroversial things like a breast cancer walk. I don't know anybody who is 'for' breast cancer.
‐‐ Richard Hayne

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
‐‐ Tony Romo

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
‐‐ Mitch Gaylord

As a competitor, you want to be out there in the fire with your teammates.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.
‐‐ David Call

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
‐‐ Darren Criss

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

As a congressman, why should I be forced to peruse cable stations and blog sites for information on the discussions and then be asked to vote for the deal when I have no input and no time to know even what's in it?
‐‐ John Fleming

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
‐‐ Ernst Mayr

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
‐‐ Rene Cassin

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
‐‐ Alex Campbell

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
‐‐ James L. Buckley

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
‐‐ J. William Fulbright

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
‐‐ Mike Pence

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
‐‐ Tom Peters

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.
‐‐ Matt Mead

As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh