Robert Mankoff Quotes

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Robert Mankoff

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TruthHumorPeopleTruth IsBad

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

John Locke

InspirationalPathTimePeopleSame

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

John Malkovich

LoseNowTemperWellVeryOften

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Angela Davis

ThinkPhilosophyPersonTeachWho

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Angela Carter

WorldIllusionFoolsWholeEverybody

I never look back, I look forward.

Steffi Graf

ForwardLookBackNever

Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.

Steven Ford

LifeLeaderMotherIntegrityAge

There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.

Tom Perez

LifeTexasAmericanPuerto RicoTag

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

Robert Crais

GreatPastRise AboveRiseDrama

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

PeopleDecisionsConnectionEveryday

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Lisa Papademetriou

JobMeReadingThoughtGrowSomeone

What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.

David Shulkin

MedicineAmericanKnowRuralSupply

I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.

Chloe Kim

PeopleProudAmericanHeritageKnow

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