“What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?” Quote by Raoul Vaneigem
“I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.” PeopleIdeasShowsAudienceWeekTelevisionGrewGrew UpGang Author:Eric Idle
“To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.” IfsDoeShowsSongComedyMusicalVery GoodGood FunFunny Song Author:Eric Idle
“Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.” PeopleWayHas BeensArtHumorAmericaExistenceTypeCivilizationElementsCreatingInstrumentsUnitySpreadObjectivesEngagedUnconsciousHeritageWarfareRuthlessPioneersCompletionCoarseSemblanceCleaving Author:Constance Rourke
“Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.” MenHas BeensWarWould BeSexViewsMistakeSituationMissingMalesCurrentsShootingSandBulletsBuryingCurrent Situation Author:Warren Farrell
“I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.” MenWellsStatesThreeUnitedCitiesUnited StatesNew YorkBoardsNew York CitySeventiesThree Times Author:Warren Farrell
“In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.” MenWorldWayAmericaJewFeministScaryComparisonNazi Author:Warren Farrell
“In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.” GivingFactsRolesBuildingToolsBlockBuilding BlocksSocialization Author:Warren Farrell
“Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.” MenRejectedVindictiveVindictiveness Author:Warren Farrell