- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
- Beam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Singing is a prayer to me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
- Attention Deficit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020