Joyce DeWitt Quotes

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

Joyce DeWitt

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When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

Jerry Robinson

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Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.'

Ron Funches

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The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Josh Fox

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You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.

DeRay Mckesson

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I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christine Keeler

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I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

Chuck Jones

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The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don't have any opinions.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.

Richard Norton Smith

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I like guys with a sense of humor who smile a lot and are kind.

Nikki Glaser

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I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word.

Nina Easton

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I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.

Richard Dawkins

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I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

Martin Henderson

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