Mike Birbiglia Quotes

I always live tweet 'SNL.'

Mike Birbiglia

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I can understand how you can feel very lucky about the kind of life you live but also intrigued and magnetized to a different life.

Jodi Balfour

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I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

Jessie Matthews

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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.

John Burroughs

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I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

Max Brooks

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I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

Stan Van Gundy

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When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

Robert Fisk

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We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

Rithy Panh

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If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

Douglas Tompkins

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I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.

Christopher Atkins

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We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol for many other countries in the world.

Ariel Sharon

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I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.

Peter Gould

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We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Richard P. Feynman

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