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Mort Sahl Quotes

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: canadian
Birth: May 11, 1927

Topics

Funny Power Challenge Dangerous Part

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Search Human Word Reject

We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.

Good God Politics Growing Up Friends

I was listening to the guy that represented me in the state Senate, and I just got really frustrated. I called my wife and said, 'I've always wanted to do something that makes a difference.' So I ended up running and won.

Wife Me Listening Said Difference

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

People Society Think Better More

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

People Me Comedy You Ask Like

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Battle Political Tongue Teeth Knot

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

Life Women Myself Quality Happy

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Robert W. Service

Success Win Quiet Race Steady Who

I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that's an experience every girl should have.

Love Girl Morning Experience Kitchen

When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests or the same goals or the same world view as you... It's difficult because a child doesn't know that there's another way. A child doesn't know that there's another place outside of the systems and hierarchies in school.

Goals School Child World View You

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Bold Endurance Prolonged

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

Team Never Years Where Five Match

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