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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
australian guy meant
What this Australian guy meant when he said I was a Googlewhack, Dave Gorman
australian close easing fed interest investors likely monetary policy quite rates renewed shifting starting toward widening wonder
U.S. interest rates are pretty close to the top. By year- end it is quite likely the Fed will be shifting toward easing monetary policy and investors will be starting to wonder about a renewed widening in the Australian and U.S. interest-rate gap. Shane Oliver
australian demand fans global incredibly strong
We're short-term fans of the Australian dollar. The global demand for commodities is incredibly strong because of the global economy, which is doing very well.
australian competing cross league second simple
We're competing in an Australian league and we have to cross the Tasman every second game, it's as simple as that.
australian drowned national sydney
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. Richard Flanagan
australian jokes male sort
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.
australian dry fans friendly humour less
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English. Tom Hopper
australian cricket environment good
My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun. Tom Moody
australian change climate deeply involved politics prime relation
I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change. Jane Goodall
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
lists
Meryl Streep belongs on anybodys list of greats. Dick Cavett
lists meetings people work
When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.
lists minds names putting together
We're putting together lists of names and are narrowing it down. It's important in our minds to do this quickly. But it's more important that we get the right guy. Mike Hargrove
lists make-you-happy numbing
The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy. Bret Easton Ellis
lists groceries heard
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. Connie Willis
lists sometimes democratic
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. David Ives
lists world manage
Lists are how I parse and manage the world. Adam Savage
lists brands associates
A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand. Adam Braun
lists form
Lists are a form of power. A. S. Byatt
madness mood
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood. Edna St. Vincent Millay
madness moments chinks
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. Arundhati Roy
madness sanity remnants
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself. Anthony Trollope
madness glory
Like madness is the glory of life. William Shakespeare
madness composing profession
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. Arthur Honegger
madness distraction
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. Bruce Sterling
madness touch
There is a touch of madness to it.
madness method though
Though this be madness, yet there is method
madness masterpiece
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness, Alejandro Jodorowsky
nobel promoted suddenly
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status. Luis Federico Leloir
nobel science
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
nobel nobel-prize hospitals
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. Doris Lessing
nobel scientist thank wish
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire. Sheldon Lee Glashow
nobel
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's. P. J. O'Rourke
nobel physiology prize punches
Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose. Tim Hunt
nobel prize deserve
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. Joe Klein
nobel nobel-peace-prize prize
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! Omar Bongo
nobel nominated peace
He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Kenneth Starr
political appearance
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
political preparation political-life
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
political liquid kind
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in. Alan Moore
political groups social
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
political campaigns maps
Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end. Chris Christie
political judgment operations
If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.
political way platforms
I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way. Chiranjeevi
political thinker
I'm not a great deep political thinker. David Mitchell
political influence economic
Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence. David Kim
problem chopping horns
...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns. Alan Watts
problem holy judaism
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
problem thousand right-place
As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once. Aiden Wilson Tozer
problem theological handiwork
Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.
problem bigs big-problems
The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.
problem sort
We want to sort of put this out there that this is an institutional problem and not just one incident.
problem wells solutions
If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well. Chip Kidd
problem gender should
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
problem victim
Those who fume at their problems become their victims.
trust honesty business
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
trust dark light
I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned. Charles Spurgeon
trust disappointment world
Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.
trust-issues promise dare
Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
trust-yourself mistrust paralyzed
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
trust data function
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. Alan Perlis
trust cutting ties
We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.
trust military believe
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
trust house cleaning
I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it. Chloe Sevigny