Jemaine Clement Quotes

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

I've never really had a problem with people.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

I think these kinds of public disputes are bad for our people.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

It's harder to scream at someone you just chatted with at lunch. I mean, if you're a superb actor, you might be able to do that, but I couldn't do it.

I don't like upsetting people.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

I'm a person that can get along with people. I like people who believe passionately in things even if they're not the things I agree with.

It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

Created a word game to play with a person you're fighting with. Silent Treatment. Nothing happens until one of you quietly says, Hey, you hungry?

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.