Words matter. These are the best Greg Gutfeld Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
True, the country is divided, but it’s not Right and Left. It’s Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.
How odd that the proponents of free expression think ‘free’ only applies to them.
I think the reason why ‘Red Eye’ is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.
If you can have a skewed sense of your body, it stands to reason you could develop the same kind of thing about your relationships with others in a social network.
I hate ‘Rolling Stone’ – because I loved it so much. I had the ‘Cheap Tricks’ cover and the Clash cover on my wall for years, and I just hate what happened to it. It just became the smarmy grad student that sits next to you on the bus.
Generally, I don’t bother trying to keep up with prolific bands – but Thee Oh Sees demand it.
At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.
I’ve interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop.
Sully’s’ upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.
Here is a fact: If Facebook were a religion, it will be the third largest behind Islam and Christianity. Its success is rooted and capitalizing on the human desire to bond.
For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.
‘Sol Invictus’ works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling you politely through all the gentle, harsh, weird surprises that follow – and then when it’s over, you get back on the ride and start over, just like Space Mountain.
Wherever socialism spread, misery followed – and still follows.
Work together. Do not purge your allies because of purity.
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.
The girls I dated liked or disliked me, whether I weighed 140 or 150; and six-pack abs had no relevance on their love or repulsion.
As foreign attacks increase, it’s easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It’s what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
Most Americans don’t shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles – that’s the Left.
There’s always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
I realize Twitter can be good, providing a video game of creativity for your brain.
2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall – and slumped limply on the pavement.
Hollywood is always about Hollywood.
The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the ‘tolerati’ – you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them.
Obama was never that bad or that great, and the same is probably going to go for Trump.
Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones – resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.
Trump has manufactured the first-ever Celebrity Immunity Bubble – rendering him incapable of offense, no matter whom he offends. It’s brilliant.
FNM didn’t really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I’d had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.
Getting mad only leads to madness.
There’s a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we’ve seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who’ve mistaken politics for punditry.
My first concert – maybe it was 1979 – was a blur. I’m not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at San Jose Civic Auditorium or The Police/The Knack/Robert Johnson at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Auditorium.
I’m used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.
Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.
If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.
Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He’s a totem pole of transparency.
When I imagine my viewer – and it sounds saccharine – but it’s a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.
Before there was radical Islam, immigration and terror didn’t mix.
No one wants a lecture when you’re getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn’t that grounds for some discipline?
Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.
Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things – none of them good.
We are all better served by objectively diagnosing trolls so they can change.
I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.
I know that, often, people in entertainment are surrounded by ‘yes’ men who tell you everything is ‘go.’ That’s never been an issue for me.
In the American ‘melting pot,’ identity politics wants to smash that pot – to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.
I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.
As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.
The good and bad thing about online trolling: it’s not on the street, and it’s not on the street! The good: nothing physical erupts; the bad: there are no brakes to stop it.
It’s pointless to get all huffy about stuff.
Trump’s policies are a mix of fairly traditional things. Even his immigration stuff isn’t really that new.
Creating a fan base of both fervent feelers and fanboys, Trump magnificently played off many fawning commentator’s insecurities – using the deep desire to be liked or noticed by Trump as a method to keep their criticism of him tamped down.
It may feel good to think you’re right. But it’s better to allow the possibility that you’re wrong.
Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn’t think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations – sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.
Ariel Pink would be a regular on the Mike Douglas Show. Both a master songwriter and a charismatic figure, he’d wander the set like a cherubic, more likable Jim Morrison. His songs would be all over KFRC – the way Boz Scaggs ruled for one summer with ‘Silk Degrees.’
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism – or what I call oblivion.
The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He’s so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He’s as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.
As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
The frothing Trump-haters’ extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.
I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they’re quoted in reviews. I don’t think they matter that much; it’s the sounds of words – not the words – that I look for.
Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they’re spontaneous as a tax return.
Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that’s standing right in front of you.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.
