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Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great. Tina Fey
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As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit. Idina Menzel
catharsis church felt god hope lucky music ownership
I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing. Wesley Schultz
catch consciousness found partly town unless
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. Val Kilmer
catch fact fun stupid
I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things. Chuck Palahniuk
catch life modern
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. Chuck Palahniuk
catch harder lead order pins poorly rarely reflected scores today
The pins were a little harder today and I think the scores reflected that. Aiken had a pretty big lead and they were going to have to play poorly in order for us to catch up, and that's something they very rarely do. Mark Gaynor
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The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending. David Limbaugh
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It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. David Limbaugh
hands purpose made
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. C. S. Lewis
hands want screwtape-letters
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand. C. S. Lewis
hands years feelings
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling. Carrie Brownstein
hands feelings bleeding
I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine. Bernard Beckett
hands people fields
When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one. Benoit Mandelbrot
hands drawing asking-questions
I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent. Benoit Mandelbrot
hands rocks arms
What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone. Aron Ralston
hands important helping
I know how important it is to have a helping hand. Arsene Wenger
hands unions doe
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. Anton Seidl
house soul grew
There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul. Cecelia Ahern
house band clean
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved. Carrie Brownstein
house spy battle
I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life. Carrie Fisher
house library rooms
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. Bernard Berenson
house bipolar extravagance
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. Benjamin Rush
house gentleman president
Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either. Bill Vaughan
house ends refuge
Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up. Bill Bryson
house
If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it. Bill Burr
households less million receive
The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000. Marty Meehan