Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
