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When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are. Robin McLeavy
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Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Michael Leunig
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. David Milne
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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees. Michael Specter
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We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson. Pete Nichols
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We have said with certainty that the embargo will not be lifted by a Security Council resolution but will corrode by itself, Saddam Hussein
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Whether top-down or bottoms-up, the facts today point but in one direction: that of sustained, significantly above-trend growth at least through the end of 2000, with virtual certainty of vigorous growth through 2001 and even the likelihood for continued expansion though 2002 as well,
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To move from uncertainty to certainty we need good strategic research - and fast.
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The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes. Benjamin Franklin
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Like any good cook, you go back in the kitchen and you revamp your recipe and you take what you have on hand and you still make up something pretty good. And I think after spending the last two months with the women on our team, I think that with certainty we can whip up something pretty good.
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Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.
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We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve. Michel Onfray
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The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.
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The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.
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The personal appropriation of clichTs is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism. Serge Daney
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We are seeing conditions that are similar to about what we saw in 2002.
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We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters, Julie Gerberding
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We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,
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There are conditions to create a government and to govern, even if the country is divided in two.
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There are some conditions we just can't handle here. Like dialysis. We can't do that, and they'll be here three or four days, so they'll need it before then.
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Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him. Charles Spurgeon
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'. Alan Bennett
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It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done. Alan Arkin
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We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. Buenaventura Durruti
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. Bryan Adams
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When in doubt, shut up. Caroline B. Cooney
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. Camille Paglia
pleasant fellows
I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow. Caryl Chessman
pleasant
We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'
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There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. Charles Bukowski
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised. Karl Pilkington
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It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.
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On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.
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Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree. Kofi Annan
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One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed. Ann Taylor
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One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.