Mike Birbiglia Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
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Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."
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It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
