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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Patton Oswalt
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
Jack Nicholson
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Almost Everyone
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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
Patton Oswalt
Adolescence
Based
Because
Bill
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Jack Nicholson
Beautiful
Counts
Pal
That
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I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.
Patton Oswalt
Car
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I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
Patton Oswalt
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Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'
Patton Oswalt
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Anyway
Comedians
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As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
Patton Oswalt
Acting
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
Patton Oswalt
Acting
Actor
Any
Beyond
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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.
Patton Oswalt
Acting
Always
Any
Doing
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At the end of the day, the quality of life you live is what matters, not how many arguments you won. Build your life.
Frank Edwards
End
Quality
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Arguments
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What do you do in the face of a setback, never lose your calm, and your praise! Be grateful.
Nathaniel Bassey
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Setback
Never lose
Praise
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Imbibe the values of integrity, honesty, hard work and loyalty and see what those virtues in your workplace will do for you as you develop your capacity.
Charles Novia
Imbibe
Value
Integrity
Honesty
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What you do in your spare time can determine how much spare time you have left..
Ivie Okujaye
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In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.
Nizar Qabbani
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Summer
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The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts. What we expect from life is what we manifest.
Chika Ike
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Thought
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Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if’. Go make that dream happen!
Chika Ike
Better
What if
Go make
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Nizar Qabbani
Ashamed
Beyond
Feel
Poems
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I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant
Bench
Cup
Games
Handing
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I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.
Kobe Bryant
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
Kobe Bryant
Always
Am
Because
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
Between
Difference
DoYouKnow
Education
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I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.
Kobe Bryant
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Back
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One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
Kobe Bryant
About
Absolutely
Filter
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Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.
Kobe Bryant
Both
Championships
Doing
Five
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What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.
Kobe Bryant
Another
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People
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger
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American
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I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
Pete Seeger
Because
Call
Christianity
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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.
Kobe Bryant
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Been
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger
Education
Experience
Fine
FinePrint
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Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
Laini Taylor
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Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
Ellen G White
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Pure love
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
Pericles
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He
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Pauly Shore
About
Camera
First
Location
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
Behind
Leave
Lives
Monuments
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles
Beautiful
Does
Extravagance
Lead
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Pericles
Alike
Before
Bravest
Clearest
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
Pericles
Disgrace
Fail
More
New
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Pericles
Courage
Endure
Enemies
Face
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You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.
Daniel Kahneman
Cause
Know
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Really
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I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
Pauly Shore
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Get
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My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.
Daniel Kahneman
Decision
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
Daniel Kahneman
Paying
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About
Thinking
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When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.
Pauly Shore
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Bike
Care
Did
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I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.
Pauly Shore
About
Act
Arm
Around
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
Daniel Kahneman
Believe
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Between
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
Pauly Shore
Act
Back
Beyond
Comedian
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All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.
Daniel Kahneman
Big
Storage
Past
Mean
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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Daniel Kahneman
Story
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Get
Set
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Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
Daniel Kahneman
Right
Time
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