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teamwork winning cost
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers. Carol Burnett
tragedy comedy
Comedy = tragedy + time.
texas relief welfare
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
timing wonderful dharma
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
television audience
The audience is never wrong.
two long people
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified. Carl Van Vechten
teacher father years
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. Carla Bley
teacher records jazz
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
thinking-about-you viruses stuff
About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself. Carl Zimmer
track would-be railroads
I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks. Carl Yastrzemski
talking world interviews
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical. Carla Bruni
two long desire
Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.
thinking joy satisfaction
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. Alan Keyes
thinking government order
There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.
tired tyrants people
Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.
thinking government self
Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?
thinking people important
We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking. Alan Lightman
time kissing circles
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
time people movement
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
time past structure
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
thinking years feelings
Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
thinking race differences
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
time church-bells years
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
thinking people political
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. Alan Cranston
thinking people giving
I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
today live-for-today tomorrow
Live today, for tomorrow we die. Alan Furst
trying force ive-learned
Ive learned never to try and force words to come. Alan Garner
travel growing-up reading
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. Alan Dean Foster
thinking found difficult
I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found. Alan Curbishley
thinking people categories
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories. Alan Cumming
tired perspective long
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
thinking outsiders feels
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
thinking people film
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.