Paul Di Filippo Quotes
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
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When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
