Tim Bishop (Timothy Howard "Tim" Bishop) Quotes
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, 'Why, you are the very image of Meph-'
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Armatura d'Orlando paladino;Come volesse dir: nessun la muova,Che star non possa con Orlando a prova.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
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I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
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The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
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It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
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So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of catch each other at times, surprise each other. I think that really makes it a fun, sort of live, unique experience.
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When we saw the first cut of 'Wild Wild Country,' it was like, Wow.
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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
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The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.
