Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every muscle in my back, shoulders and arms is groaning, 'You missed it.' And believe me, it is no fun to miss a ball that hard. Once I put myself out of the game for a few days by a miss like that.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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If life is all subjective, why not be subjectively happy rather than subjectively sad?
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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Thy light alone like mist o'er mountains driven, Or music by the night-wind sent Through strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
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Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.
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ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.
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Jokes are used to hide the truth!
