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Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Smile
  • Look

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Care

• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Perspective

• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

  Sam Weller
  • House
  • Small
  • California

• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Dreams

• When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.

  

  Drew Roy
  • Time
  • Bad

• We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of the strength and security of a successful society.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • Believe
  • American
  • Society

• Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

  

  Steven Hatfill
  • Society
  • Government
  • Trust

• I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn.

  

  Jon Glaser
  • Great
  • Success
  • Community

• Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

  

  Vir Das
  • Comedy
  • Laughter
  • Record