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I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

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• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Gift

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Careful
  • Adventures

• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Industry
  • Download

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Movement

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Point
  • Novels
  • Seven

• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Cancer
  • New
  • Evidence

• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Know
  • Secret
  • Keep

• My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Lonely
  • Just
  • Diary

• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • First
  • Say
  • Season

• In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Life
  • Comedy

• It just seemed that we always ended up at the Rainbow, to the point where they finally just said, why don't you guys go up into this loft where we'll kind of protect people from coming around and, you know, sitting on the tables. And we thought that was a great idea.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Rainbow
  • Ended up

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Think
  • Change
  • Cancer

• It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.

  

  Beny Steinmetz
  • People
  • Small

• I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

  

  Vir Das
  • Comedy
  • Rule
  • Upset People