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James Lapine Quotes

In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what's going on that it's the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny.

James Lapine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1949

Topics

Funny Clearly Going Most Part Makes

I know that it takes a coalition of individuals fighting against this very divisive agenda that the Trump administration and the Republicans are trying to push.

Jimmy Gomez

Fighting Push Trying Know Against

Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'

Anand Giridharadas

Good Myself Me Language Sometimes

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

Slash

Mom Did Sisters Costumes

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Lord Mountbatten

Society President British Computer

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson

Rain Man Cow Average Standing

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Cornel West

Clever Cheap Distraction Yield Mass

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Brian Greene

Cats Universe Go Why Understand

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Brent Spiner

Hope Day Me Think Data Look

I don't want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It's very difficult to do this? I don't think so.

Antonio Conte

Team Rest Think Want Difficult Same

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Allan Houston

Children Day Society End Violence

When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back - sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.

Sherrod Brown

Live Time Push Back Country Accept

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

Maripol

Sister More Big Her Like Madonna