#be

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people. ↗

— Dane Cook

#being #cheek #close #clubs #comedian

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere. ↗

— Dane Cook

#amazing #amazing time #away #blast #came

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up. ↗

— Dane Cook

#appliance #been #business #giving #going

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#bed #child #create #day #drunken

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement. ↗

— Scott Cook

#care #more #more people #people #retirement

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. ↗

— John Thorn

#april #baseball #because #contrast #dared

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#best work #feel #his #like #professional

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#best #child #coincide #come #compliment

I have never been hurt by what I have not said. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#been #hurt #i #never #said

I've always been a proud man. ↗

— Herve Villechaize

#been #i #man #proud #proud man