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Billy Collins Quotes

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1941

Topics

Funny Humor Think You Serious Very

There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.

People World Uncertainty Pressure

When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.

Home Start You Go New Know

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

John Chrysostom

Life Simple Wise Philosophy Point

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Work Doubt Done Without Fine Toil

Maybe thermoelectricity will be able to power a tablet someday.

Power Will Someday Able Maybe

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

Day Performance You Acting Capture

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

Search Down Everything Point Force

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

Life Live Me Long Body I Can

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Wealth Expand Inappropriate Between

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Time Travel School People Library

I'm hungry and ambitious.

Julen Lopetegui

Hungry Ambitious

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

People Person Group Belief Follow

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