J.P. Morgan Quotes

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].

I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.

I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you.

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

I would love to try action films.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.