Howard Jacobson Quotes

Trump's hobbled vocabulary is now the incontestable stuff of comedy: not just how few his words but how narrow their range, from boastful to irked and back again. For satirists and impressionists, a president who addresses the American people in abbreviated tweetspeak is a gift.

Howard Jacobson

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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Anna Deavere Smith

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The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.

Roberto Aguire

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If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

Romelu Lukaku

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When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

Chelsea Peretti

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I always want to play the songs that people want to hear.

Chuck Berry

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When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

Bryan Fuller

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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Arthur Eddington

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When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Peter Mullan

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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

Peter Ueberroth

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What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.

Scott Greenstein

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I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

Tyga

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If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Timothy Noah

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