Crowd Pleasers Quotes

• I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

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  Katy B

  Mom   Memories   Home  

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• It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn't want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, "I need you guys." I wanted to be so cool that the audience could leave and I would still be killing, that I didn't want to have to rely on them or need them. That really appealed to me.

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  Anthony Jeselnik

  Guy   Comedian   Important  

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

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  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men   Office   Democracy  

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

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  Henry Rollins

  Hero   Would Be   Crowds  

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• The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

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  Danica McKellar

  Fun   Eye   People  

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I was definitely never a crowd pleaser.

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  Johnny Depp

  Crowds   Crowd Pleasers   Pleasers  

  "Johnny Depp Is Captain Jack Sparrow In Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". MovieWeb Interview, www.movieweb.com. June 29, 2006.

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• Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

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  Bob Hope

  Golf   Crowds   Invention  

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• I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

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  Steven Spielberg

  People   Crowds   Dozen  

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• A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds.

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  Owen Gleiberman

  Heart   Years   Mind  

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• Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

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  David Cross

  People   Upset   Crowds  

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2009.

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• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Eye   Men   Faithful  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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