T. H. Key Quotes

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

If I could just get over my issues of wanting people to like me.

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

There is nothing more dangerous on planet Earth than a black wife.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

Do what you love in your community.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

When you say to somebody, "I'd like to recommend a book to you," you're typically talking to a person who is willing to learn, grow, or change.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.

We've caught people watching us, and I'll look at them and I'll go, "It's just us. It's just our thing. It's just what we do."

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

[The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.