I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
The media is the only business in the world where the customer is always wrong. If you're a news consumer, if you're a customer, and you complain to them, they will tell you that you are not sophisticated enough to understand what they do, and they're tell you to go listen or watch somewhere else. They're not even really doing the news for you. They're doing news for other journalists and other people in government because that's their real audience.
I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.
Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.
All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work. . . although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.
If you want more energy, put yourself in situations where energy is required. Your body will naturally respond and always produce the energy you need, but not if you're just sitting around complaining about not having enough energy.
Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.
People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.
Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness
You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!
I'm not an Uncle Tom. . . . I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.