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Doug Stanhope Quotes

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1967

Topics

Funny Fun Doing Being Funny Out

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.

Power Day Risks Support Face Defeat

Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like.

Day Influence Feel Look Born Afraid

Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone.

Technology Attention Apple Place

I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!

Wake Up Hotel Back Down Go Nothing

I firmly believe in the old adage 'Actions speak louder than words.' This means proactively seeking women for roles within boards, identifying opportunities for diversity within teams, and finding ways to use your platform to mentor women - and then encourage them to do the same.

Women Words Diversity Believe Speak

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

Woman Man Believe I Believe Between

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Chuck Palahniuk

Me Generation Kind Sarcastic Because

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

People Me You Dark Movies Why

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Nature Art Mind Spirit Contemplation

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Government Create Bill Of Rights Our

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Change Social Media Moving Forward

I criticise myself a lot. My friends complain about it.

Myself Friends Complain About Lot

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