Joe Flaherty Quotes
That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I need instant gratification.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
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Well, fans always root for the underdog.
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Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America's infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.
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That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
