Mike Birbiglia Quotes

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.

Mike Birbiglia

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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

Jeremy Rifkin

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In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Jean-Marie Lehn

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The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

Steven A. Cohen

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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Robert Falcon Scott

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Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.

Rita Ora

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I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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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

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It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.

Jason Fried

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

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When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

Johnny Weir

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I'm not a prodigy - or a 'wonderboy,' as some have put it.

Christian Pulisic

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Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.'

Anthony Doerr

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