Robert Mankoff Quotes

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Robert Mankoff

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He slides into second with a stand up double.

Jerry Coleman

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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

Jenny Shipley

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You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Joel Siegel

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Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

Minnie Driver

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In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

Luis Fortuno

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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Cornelia Funke

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Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

Clifford Ross

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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Polly Toynbee

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I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Peter Fonda

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It shocks me, the rumors people start: that I have the title because of my boyfriend. If that was the case, I would have gotten the title when I came back years ago and still had the title. He has nothing to do with it.

Nikki Bella

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I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

Richard Ford

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Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth.

Ryan Cartwright

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