Gene Ween Quotes

Gentlemen, by royal order you have all been relieved of your functions.

We need to have some people fired for reasons of public trust.

The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me.

The only time I think about my contract is when I'm asked about it by the media.

The best thing to break is a contract.

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ

Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong.

I like being able to fire people.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.