Entertaining Quotes - Page 2

• Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

  Joe Cocker

  People, Quarters, Weird Places

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

  Chad Lowe

  Important, Stories, Values

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  People, Entertainment

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• I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

  Wyclef Jean

  People, Littles, Entertainment

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

  Cab Calloway

  Fun, Saws, Segregation

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• Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Literature

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• When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

  Jim Dale

  Song, Singing, Nine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Successful, Artist, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile

  Alton Brown

  Jobs, Educational, Thinking

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• Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.

  Trish Stratus

  Stay Strong, Cutting, Stuff

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• Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

  Liza Minnelli

  Reality, Mind, Looks

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• In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Fun, Past

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• The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

  Kevin Nealon

  Thinking, Funny Things, Littles

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• What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Team, Play

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• I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

  Kevin Nealon

  Clever, Thinking, Games

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• Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Impact, Political

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Art, Freedom

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• The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Reading, Being Alone

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• Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
  MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Rap, People

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