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  • Woody Allen Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Marty Feldman Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carlos Ponce Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Campbell Brown Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce Communism is like one big phone company.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Will Rogers Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Brendan Myers Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Britten Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Joseph Campbell Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Bill James Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Albert Einstein Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment.
    The evolution of physics (1938)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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