Mike Birbiglia Quotes

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

Mike Birbiglia

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Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Jimmy Buffett

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The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.

Anastasia Griffith

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The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Jacob

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I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John Prendergast

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I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

Steve Harvey

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When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

Marvin Ammori

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I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.

Jazz Jennings

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Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

Josh Hartnett

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Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.

Jared Polis

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The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

Derek Jeter

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I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, 'Forget about it,' that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time.

Clarence Clemons

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We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

Brantley Gilbert

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