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absurd aware room
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are. Robin McLeavy
absurd advocate einstein expressed good great ideas notion similar
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Michael Leunig
absurd bills federal government next orleans pays unless unlikely
unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt. Dennis Hastert
absurd bit easily everyday life pull routines seems stuck wakes weird wider
I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting. Kurt Braunohler
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
absurd good job
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too. Reggie Watts
absurd anne grew jane loving
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.' Lauren Willig
absurd cartoonist clown comic outside seems sort
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. Stephan Pastis
absurd business characters feature half identify japanese mad point related role scripts sent
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
claims hard quite responsibility
There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point. Adam Ereli
claims
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. Antonio Tabucchi
claims critical regard
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims. Bill Nye
claims focus looking paying sources
We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.
claims families issues pension related since workers
We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.
claims willing ifs
You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it. Bill Maher
claims express informing officer outset police senior themselves true
We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.
claims close energy leading level months spike typical weekly
We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.
claims expert fact former including reports shown supported three
The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.
life strong truth
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens
life saying-goodbye expectations
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
life autism world
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
life littles
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
life people astonishing
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Charles Caleb Colton
life soul prison
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
life happiness dark
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
maddening teacher time younger
The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am. Lola Kirke
maddening terms
It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked. Rutina Wesley
others-opinions live-for-others opinion
When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. Carlos Slim
others-happiness blood people
I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves. Charles de Lint
others
Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class. George W. Bush
others search thyself
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices. Benjamin Franklin
others search self thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
others though wounded wounds
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
others runs
When the others see how much he runs they will know they have competition. Rafael Benitez
others perish plot
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
others proud today
But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love. Owen Arthur
spending enjoy ifs
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Alan Watts
spending born deficit-spending
I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending. Al Sharpton
spend tea time trying
Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?
spend time tour
But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them. Neville Marriner
spend time
I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things. Theaster Gates
spending combination increase
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination. Bobby Scott
spend-time end-times
You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently. Brian Tracy
spend time work
Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me. Kourtney Kardashian
spend time women
Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces. Tyra Banks
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon