Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
James Lipton
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.
Jeff Foxworthy
YourselfThinkLoserOldHardYears
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.
Michael Dirda
LovePoetryOverMostFulfilled
Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
Steven Rattner
HealthBestFinancialAmericaPlan
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
Tom Chatfield
WorldDigitalBoundariesIndividual
I put my heart into my career, and the people knew that I did that; and I went from being the most hated man to one of the best loved.
Roddy Piper
HeartBestManPeopleLovedCareer
We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.
Martin O'Malley
ChangeChallengeJobForwardBetter
What is John Arriaga's circle of competence? Is it real estate? No! Is it U.S. real estate? No! Is it California real estate? No! Northern California real estate? No! Only real estate around Stanford. His circle of competence is this small.
Mohnish Pabrai
Real EstateSmallCircleCalifornia
I've never been good at playing live in front of people.
Lou Barlow
GoodLivePeopleNeverPlayingBeen
Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.
Jean Chatzky
ThinkFinancialPictureBudgetYou
'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S.
Jon Feltheimer
BetterPlanEscapeChinaThanDid
I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.
Chelsea Handler
BusinessParentsMeGivingHouse
Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.
Christian de Duve
DeterminationTwoOperationsCommon
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