Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Recitation: by Male by Female
You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.
Jermaine Fowler
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I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
Robert Osborne
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The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
Angela Merkel
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The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.
Michael Corbat
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In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
Stephen Colbert
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I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Simon Raven
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
Toyin Odutola
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I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.
Trevor Paglen
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My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.
Robert Crais
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I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Lou Holtz
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I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.
Johnny Ramone
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I like expensive-looking, nuanced, hour-long dramas that don't smell like regular TV. That and cheap, funny shows that feel like one guy made them by himself. So ... artisanal television?
Christopher McCulloch
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