Allison Silverman Quotes
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
Quotes to Explore
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
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Words fall short sometimes.
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Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s. But then when I re-recorded 'Breaking Up,' I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do's!
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There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
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Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
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I like vaporous clothing with flowers and colors.
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If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.
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Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.
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There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.
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At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.
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I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
