Bill Mauldin Quotes
The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Bill Mauldin
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Mandy Patinkin
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
Gaby Hoffmann
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin
If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise managers to stop calling workers to come in on weekends or expect them to answer emails late on weeknights.
Mary Pilon
If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
Octavia Spencer
The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances that surround your character.
Joe Morton
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
James Merrill
As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they dont mean it.
Cheryl Baker
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Bill Mauldin
