Jon Gnarr quotes

People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It's so strange.
-- Jon Gnarr

#People #Bully #Voting

We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.
-- Jon Gnarr

#People #Bully #Underdog

Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.
-- Jon Gnarr

#Thinking #People #Done

I can go wherever, to Kuala Lumpur or wherever, and if somebody will ask me where I'm from and I say I'm from Iceland, they say, "Yeah, Björk." And that makes me very proud, and that makes me proud to be an Icelandic artist.
-- Jon Gnarr

#Artist #Iceland #Proud

When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.
-- Jon Gnarr

#Vikings #Kind #Moved

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

There's no need to bully; be kind to unwind!

I don't understand why or how we can bully each other.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.