#time

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#authenticity #desire #hard #hard times #instinctive

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#energy #exists #fact #i #kind

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#bat #big #camera #creative #film

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it. ↗

— Michael Chang

#away #change #comes #down #i

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#been #cent #four #funny #i

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#business #children #entertain #entertain people #i

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#flattering #hand #i #just #often

There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#come #dress #fun #good #good time

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#after #discovered #energies #fire #god

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices. ↗

— Josh Charles

#bold #choices #competitive #concede #corners