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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. Kurt Braunohler
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
countries demand emissions energy expand gas greenhouse growth help improve incredible production reduce renewable seeing seek wind
We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security. Robert Gleitz
countries europe final genuine gone help meant needed poor round service talks throes trade
We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development. Jeremy Hobbs
countries italy name
There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain! Robert Smith
countries move
There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point. Chris Rudge
countries looked others simply
There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way. Dick Marty
countries external fit free function grow history influence interested manner ways
There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance, Donald Rumsfeld
countries heard people
There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing, Paul Nelson
countries exchanges hold question ready stand
We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate. Yang Jiechi
countries denied ground kiss people seeing
When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have. Sugar Ray Leonard
death sovereign warp
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. Charles Caleb Colton
death medicine literature
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Charles Caleb Colton
death hands body
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not. Charles Caleb Colton
death two sound
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. Charles Caleb Colton
death tears world
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. Charles Dickens
death eye giving
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. Charles Dickens
death universal-truth universal
Death is a mighty, universal truth. Charles Dickens
death fire mad
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. Charles Dickens
death waiting-rooms immortality
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. Charles Spurgeon
depressed incumbent people ridiculous sister smile
With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery. Miriam Toews
depressed middle people treated
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
depressed god gonna love moment mood next night saying screw
It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself 'God I'm in love.' Willa Ford
depressed earnings given good growth improving pricing trading
Those are all trading around 12 times earnings and have given us very good earnings growth in a depressed pricing environment, ... And I think the pricing is improving for those companies. Vince Farrell
depressed economic either everybody good keeping price problems
On one side, we've got pretty good economic fundamentals. On the either side, we have all the problems that are keeping everybody depressed -- Iraq, Iran, the price of oil. Al Goldman
depressed eight
I lost in the 1988 Olympics, and I was pretty depressed for about eight years. I quit wrestling, and I got into Brazilian jujitsu in 1991. Mark Schultz
depressed nobody strive trying wants
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant. Joel Kinnaman
depressed saw seeing yesterday
I don't know of anything that has depressed me more than seeing what I saw yesterday in my state. Thad Cochran
depressed home keeps work
I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work. Daron Malakian
drinks soft
Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it. Dave DeCecco
drinks migration road seems soft sports tough water
Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent. John Sicher
drinks eats poor sick
Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick Benjamin Franklin
drinks father fear involved man mother next others son wasting wife
But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away. Bill Wilson
drinks hardly hemisphere northern noticed people stir whereas
Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere. John McCarthy
drinks problem taking
It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands. John Czwartacki
drinks happily law lives preached rejoices sage serene
He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect. Friedrich Muller
drinks expanding juice prepared sports system talk until
We're not prepared to talk about expanding it to juice and sports drinks until we know the system is working OK. Andrea Cohen
drinks kidnapped kids paranoia paranoid parties people
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. Meg Rosoff
exciting
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting. Byron Katie
exciting game hurt played realize
The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt. Michael Boulware
exciting love seem work
I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work. Lexi Thompson
exciting good jump looking love work
I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me. Noel Fisher
exciting
[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me. Cassandra Peterson
exciting families
We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together. Karen Johnson
exciting image people retailers sells sharper sold telling unique watch
Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy. Kurt Barnard
exciting imagine scandals watching
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out. Donna Brazile
exciting games girls score struggled type
We've always struggled to score goals. That's why it's been so exciting to see the girls put these type of games together. Greg Nasello
full grieving year
We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer. Sarah Santana
full preached time
The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version. Bob Day
fullest life living
We've all been living life to the fullest during our break, Justin Jeffre
full historic path successes
We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures. Jacques Santer
full increased openings production
We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines. Ken Vaughn
full kinds lets music people piano saturday soft spiritual split sunday
We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads. Mark Hansen
full games glass half
We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not. Mike Sherman
full providing
We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing. Glenn McGinnis
full involved knew signed talk
When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks. Army Sgt.
games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. Charles Dickens
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all. Alan Watts
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Al Alvarez
gardens
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that. Brittany Howard
gardens increase whim
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness. Alice Morse Earle
gardens home looking luther people wondering
People are probably looking at Luther Burbank Home and Gardens and wondering who they are and how they got that (award). Lisa Grant
gardens people serenity summer walking
People like the serenity of walking through the gardens even when it's hot, even in the summer time. Paul Saito
gardens gave goodly heritage noble thus
How many of the gardens and fountains have they left! / And cornfields and noble places! / And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; / Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people. quran quran
girls lose outcome rather tend
The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one. Bruce Marthaller
girls
There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am. Marcia Gay Harden
girls jelly life shoes understand
I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular. Hayley Orrantia
girls last nervous playing rather relax thinking win
We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing. Ron Reichle
girls punishment running school season watching worked worse
We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning. Lauren Pittman
girls knew step stop
We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up. John Franceschi
girls half life models
There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous. Lisanne Falk
girls midway season starting work
We're midway through the season now and I think the girls are starting to progress. We've got a lot more work to do, but I think that we're going in the right direction. Dave Hohenthal
girls minimize number post throw
We're going to throw a number of girls on her. You have to post up on the elbow, not down on the block. If we can minimize her and their 3-point shooters, we have shot. Mike Turnan
knew outside stopped
We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him. Donte Whitner
knew movies proved women
'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves. Lauren Miller
knew quite
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this. Hans-Ulrich Obrist
knew pregnant similar starting time venture
When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road. Natalie Massenet
knew nature people suppose
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do. Nathaniel Smith
knew nine thursday
When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational. Greg Nossaman
knew matter rough shots stop worried
When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us. Chris Schwartz
knew time
When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot. Ray Allen
knew learning sixth
When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff. Mike Rumph
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. Charles Dickens
life autism world
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in. Charles Dickens
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Charles Dickens
life littles
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
poverty world wealth
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! Charles Dickens
poverty discovering american-poverty
One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
poverty donation
Poverty isn’t solved with donations. Carlos Slim
poverty ending-poverty should
No one who works for a living should live in poverty. Edward Kennedy
poverty suits rags
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. Charles Lamb
poverty
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger. Charles Lamb
poverty dresses female
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. Charles Lamb
poverty sickness melancholy
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work Charles Baudelaire
poverty poor should
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. Benjamin Franklin
seemed tries whereas work
Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours. Todd Blackadder
seemed time
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading. Lisa Tuttle
seemed
Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right. David Carradine
seemed
Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful. Terry Kratovil
seemed wish
I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it. Russ Ortiz
seemed
I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall. Hope Schulte
seemed wilson
I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast. Alex Hernandez
seemed shot
God, it seemed like we had shot somebody. Leslie Moonves
seemed
He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic. Mark Kantor
tennis consistency
Power thrills, consistency kills. Bill Anderson
tennis
Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it. Boris Becker
tennis nerves fifth
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves. Boris Becker
tennis
Tennis lets you talk while you're playing. Jane Kaczmarek
tennis woods
I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis. Jana Novotna
tennis way sexuality
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour. Billie Jean King
tennis competition research
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research. Billie Jean King
tennis achievement records
Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles. Chris Evert
tennis training mind
Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body. Chris Evert