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James Thurber Quotes

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961

Topics

Comedy Rules Taste Limitations Only

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

Music Guitar Doing New Done Never

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Time Experience Purpose Spiritual

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

Anger Self Help Emotion Preservation

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

Amitabh Bachchan

Fear Saying Think You Audience

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.

Stephen Merchant

People Think Short Enough Fall Pie

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Stephen Ambrose

Today Country Existence Gone Us

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

Freedom Together Religion Growing Up

Of course I have my father guiding me, and I have people who I have actually grown up with and who advise me.

Father People Me Up Course Guiding

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

Decision Politics Political Right

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

Funny Looking Better You Look Mad

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Christopher Hitchens

Children Tree Plant Die You House

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

Christine Lagarde

Love Alone Myself Cooking Giving

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