Funny Things Quotes - Page 10

• I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.

  John Varvatos

  Mean, People, Different

  "10 Questions for Top American Menswear Designer John Varvatos". Interview with Victoria Namkung, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2010.

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• It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

  Nancy Mitford

  Drawing, People, Talent

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• I don't really hashtag things. Unless I'm talking to somebody and I'm being funny and I say something mean but then I'm like, Hashtag...something that's funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

  Bella Thorne

  Real, Mean, Talking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It’s all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing…you blink your eyes and somebody says ‘Goodnight’ to you.

  Kostya Tszyu

  Good Night, Eye, Boxing

  "Archives: Scoop Interview with Kostya Tszyu". Interview with Scoop Malinowski, ringobserver.com. October 9, 2017.

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• I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.

  Chanel West Coast

  Stupid, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• The funny thing is, when a Harley-Davidson guy full of tattoos comes out with a Maltese, they're trying to soften themselves out. When a very soft, single lady with a tailored look comes out with a Rottweiler, she’s looking for protection, for strength. Society automatically views the guy as too strong so he brings a Maltese. It's just a natural way to balance your situation. It really depends.

  Cesar Millan

  Tattoo, Strong, Views

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is.

  Henry Threadgill

  Unique, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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• Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Exercise, Golf

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• It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  Thinking, Names, Brooklyn

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.

  Maxine Powell

  Beautiful, Flower, People

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• In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

  Bill Ayers

  Sorry, Regret, Moving

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Ideas, Clubs

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• There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

  Louis C. K.

  Stuff, Online, Beats

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• The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.

  Al Kooper

  Song, Play, Waiting

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• I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Believe, Laughing, Addresses

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• I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

  Nikki Glaser

  Fun, Thinking, Scared

  "The Ladies Of Nikki & Sara Live Dish On Confidence & Awkward, Uhh, Pauses". Interview with Carlye Wisel, www.refinery29.com. February 1, 2013.

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• One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now."

  Rafe Esquith

  Children, Kids, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always think back to my childhood and I have a distinct memory of me not having any idea who I wanted to be. The funny thing is that I feel the same way now. So much time has passed and I haven't a definitive sense of self.

  Pamela Anderson

  Memories, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  Joe Bastianich

  Hero, Wine, Shoes

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• This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

  Stanley Tucci

  People, Wish, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think that our script is the bible. We want to make sure that the story is told, that you stick to the story but if you have to make changes to the character then that's fine. A lot of times there are some funny one-liners, funny things that happen that are out of the ordinary. I like it.

  Todd Farmer

  Character, Thinking, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Unions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

  Kevin Hart

  School, People, My Friends

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• I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

  Kevin Hart

  Writing, Notes, Materials

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