Dan Mazer Quotes
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I always have to be writing.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.
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I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'
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People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
