Bryant H. McGill Quotes
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
