Entertaining Quotes - Page 20

• It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, People, Personality

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

  Damien Fahey

  Funny, Real, Technology

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2012

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• Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Solitude, Made, Capacity

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  Ted Allen

  Expression, People, Generosity

  "Things a Man Should Know About Entertaining" by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• I raced through
  Killer Keepsakes and really loved it smart and interesting and entertaining.

  Linda Fairstein

  Smart, Interesting, Killers

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• I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

  Budd Schulberg

  Listening, Novelists, Used

  "Budd Schulberg, 'On the Waterfront' Writer, Dies at 95" by Tim Weiner, www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.

  Ann Romney

  Children, Home, School

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• Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Book, Letters, May

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• A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Quality, Mesmerizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

  David McCullough

  Poet, Companion, Whole Life

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.

  Tom T. Hall

  Running, Philosophical, Mean

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• It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Class, President

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

  Kevin Hart

  Team, Guy, Swim

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• Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

  Tupac Shakur

  Who I Am, World, Hell

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Giving, Trying, Comedy

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• Let's be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It's not about Donald Trump, he's an entertaining guys, he's the greatest show on Earth.

  Marco Rubio

  Presidential, Guy, Campaigns

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

  David LaChapelle

  Entertainment, Provocative, Industry

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• I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Song, New Experiences, Korea

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• It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

  Dr. Dre

  Crazy, Expression, People

  "Dr. Dre: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.

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• My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, Political, Trying

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• The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

  Martha Stewart

  Book, Writing, Firsts

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