Top 42 Armando's Quotes
#2. Armando's not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.
Cristina Henriquez
#3. I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.
Armando Iannucci
#4. There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
Armando Iannucci
#6. I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.
Armando Iannucci
#7. The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
Armando Iannucci
#8. Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America's Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love affair on the part of the media and many intellectuals with Fidel Castro.
Armando Valladares
#9. I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
Armando Iannucci
#10. Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.
Armando Iannucci
#11. When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people ... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
Armando Iannucci
#13. Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
John Oliver
#14. I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.
Armando Iannucci
#15. The guards were making a butcher shop out of the stairways. There was a hail of blows with chains, bayonets, and truncheons. They were breaking heads and arms.
Armando Valladares
#16. Take a good look at them, Mama. We were a wretched mass of fleeing people who had been kicked out of our homes. In just a few seconds, we had become immigrants, something she never wanted to accept. She had to face reality now. Suddenly
Armando Lucas Correa
#17. That at the end of the XX century many Puerto Ricans don't know who he is, nor acknowledge him as their Father is a real pity, that other Puerto Ricans that can never be compared to Dr. Betances be praised as illustrious Puerto Ricans, and his name is omitted makes one think why.
Armando Pacheco Matos
#18. There was not one witness to accuse me, there was no one to identify me, there was not a single piece of evidence against me. I was found guilty, simply out of the mistaken "conviction" held by the Political Police. And sadly, my case was no exception.
Armando Valladares
#19. Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.
Armando Iannucci
#20. When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.
Armando Iannucci
#21. I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
Armando Iannucci
#22. When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!
Armando Iannucci
#23. Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
Armando Iannucci
#24. Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.
Armando Valladares
#25. What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.
Armando Iannucci
#26. I have become convinced that hatred towards the U.S. has been a chief reason for Castro's longevity in power
Armando Valladares
#27. Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.
Armando Iannucci
#28. The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.
Geoffrey Nunberg
#29. The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.
Armando Iannucci
#30. I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
Armando Iannucci
#31. People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Mark Wilkins
#32. Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that. There are things which are only in my heart-that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything." Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona
#33. Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.
Armando Iannucci
#35. Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.
Armando Iannucci
#36. I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.
Armando Iannucci
#37. The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
Armando Iannucci
#38. There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.
Armando Iannucci
#39. I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
Armando Iannucci
#40. My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.
Armando Iannucci
#41. I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
Armando Iannucci
#42. Armando was the only man who'd been patient enough to chase after me. After he had caught me, he'd done what every man loves to do when he has found the woman of his dreams: take her for granted.
Josefina Lopez
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