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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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
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Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
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I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.
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There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
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We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.
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Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
