Mike Birbiglia Quotes

Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.

Mike Birbiglia

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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

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During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross the road and enter this dream world, this vision of China.

Robert Lepage

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I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.

Sophie Hannah

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Mason Cooley

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To me, nothing beats McDonalds and a scary movie at home.

Mikaela Hoover

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No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

Michael Redhill

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I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

Luke Goss

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It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

Dick Cheney

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It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

Dawn Olivieri

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I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Boris Becker

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If you can jump, you can jump.

Brooke Sweat

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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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