I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
John Hodgman
Recitation: by Male by Female
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Joan Rivers
WomanMistakesManSleepQuestions
I'm usually always a big fan of the people that I'm working with, because I get to work with big people.
Joey King
WorkPeopleAlwaysBigWorkingGet
For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby. It's that I can get on the subway and eavesdrop on conversations that I would never have access to otherwise. That's why I stay. That's why I could never leave.
Jennifer Egan
BusinessNew YorkPeopleMeI Can
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.
Robert Klein
GreatGeniusTraditionWhyStage
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
FriendDangerousEnemyNothingMore
I want people to think I'm a creative genius.
Michael Connelly
CreativePeopleThinkGeniusWant
I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
Ana Tijoux
MusicMyselfThinkingLanguageTools
It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.
Tom Petty
WorkTimeWaterLonelyYouRoutine
Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.
Ruth Reichl
GreatFoodDayChoiceBoringTake
Rights come from God, not from government.
Roy Moore
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Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
Mike Myers
LoveFatherCultureGrowing UpWorld
I find there are a few places where I like to meditate more than in other places. There's a little Catholic church that I go to, and there's another temple I go to - there are certain places where I just feel more comfortable.
Michael Keaton
ChurchFeelFindGoComfortable
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