Historical Context famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

  • Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

  • Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

  • This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

  • This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

  • I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

  • The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

  • If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

  • I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.

  • I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.