David Farr Quotes
All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.
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Politics is downstream from culture.
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A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.
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Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
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Artists who are passionate about their music and in love with their art go independent because they want to continue making music and serving it to the world.
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All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.
