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Mike Birbiglia Quotes

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 20, 1978

Topics

Time Comedy Tragedy Different Plus

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Time Story You Information Over

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Robert Kiyosaki

Debt Point Lowest Nearly

You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.

Culture Transformation You Values

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

Think Transition First Hard Being

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

Great Moment Joy Me Watching Right

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

Thinking End Doing You Same Over

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Leadership Good People Bad Skills

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Michel Foucault

Technology Power Discipline Physics

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

Michael Rosbash

Random Environment Events Inheritance

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wisdom Yourself Always Somebody Else

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

Jonny Greenwood

Music Look Band Real Artists Been

My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.

Mindset Year Uncle Skills Always

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