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“One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.”

People Kind Jobs Lines Draws Add Everyday Heroism Everyday Life Ambiguity Nuance Straight Lines Snooki

Author:John Green

“You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.”

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Author:Sonny Barger

“[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.”

Important Might Next Pay Attention Poet Important Things Add Pay Attention Bored Being Bored

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.”

World Book War Country Literature Add War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I

Book:Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

“My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.”

Littles Stronger Add Ahimsa Makes You Stronger

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.”

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Book:Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".”

Want Doe Humor Seems Funny Jobs Easy Add Kitchen Refrigerators Appliances Toasters Blenders

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I like the public hot-tub at the hotels. I like when a guy is already in there, I say, "Hey, do you mind if I join you?" Then I go turn the heat up, and I add some carrots and onions.”

Ifs Mind Humor Funny Guy Turns Hot Add Hey Heat Hotel Onions Carrots Tubs Hot Tub

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.”

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Author:Jim Jefferies

“The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.”

Men Song Industry Blue Add Construction Doing You Collars Sweating Blue Collar Before And After Service Industry Construction Work

Author:David Lee Roth

“In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.”

Action Fiction Darkness Safe Add Remove Villain Unspeakable Cathartic

Author:Cassandra Clare

“We're [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It's healthy and full of vitamins and minerals.”

People Trying Healthy Add League Diets Urges Vitamins Minerals Avocados Vitamins And Minerals

Author:Jennie Finch

“What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.”

Thinking Trying Enjoy Audience Stage Draws Add Enjoyed

Author:Bo Burnham

“After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.”

Ifs Wanted Funny Team Summer Program Add Congress Throat Olympics Cabinets Volleyball Reaganomics

Author:Bob Hope

“Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.”

World Giving Humans War Progress Security Arms Protect Add Defense Violent Permanent Assault Human Progress

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

“Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Age Three Parent Add Aging Three Years

Author:Deepak Chopra

“After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.”

“If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.”

Ifs Want Humor Funny Animal Creatures Horse Wings Add Lions Hawks Mythical Creatures Pegasus

Author:Demetri Martin

“Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'”

Want Children Humor Funny Arms Add Noise Inner Child Treehouses

Author:Russell Howard

“Employees will only add more value over time.”

Values Team Add Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.”

People Communication Connections Add Pairs Overhead

Author:Sam Altman

“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.”

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Author:Tom Johnson

“Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.”

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Author:Arian Foster

“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.”

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Author:Liane Holliday Willey

“Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.”

Want Hours Audience Add Esteem Recognition Desks Daydreaming

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.”

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Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.”

Character Courses Religious Tests Add Presidency

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard

“There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.”

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Author:Philip Schultz

“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.”

Ifs Giving Play Problem Film Actors Sound Sides Rooms Powerful Audience Too Much Huge Conversation Give Me Add Editing Toolbox

Author:Dave McKean

“If I don't think about anything and just sing sincerely, it could be the best, but at the same time of singing sincerely, I must also add my own thinking and measure in, to be able to maintain and sing this way is my dream, and it is also the biggest problem.”

Ifs Thinking Way Problem Dream Able My Own Singing Add Being The Best Sincerely

Author:Daesung

“The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.”

Feels Firsts I Can Reason Character Use Sound Behinds Player Add Guitar Reason Why Piano Electric Bass Keyboards Bending Flavour Bass Players

Author:Hiromi

“I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.”

Thinking Artist One Thing Fronts Television Cameras Agree Trade Add Crowds Really Cool Trade Offs

Author:Brett Dennen

“I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond.”

Mean Girl Father Common Comedy Doors Add Teenage Teenage Girl

Author:Stephanie Beatriz

“It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.”

Water Food Add Elsewhere Soup Potatoes Unhealthy

Book:Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book

Source: Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book

“And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'”

Thinking May Has Beens Laughing Add Sophisticated Retrospect

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“This budget is a Sanjeevani (new life) and an Arunoday (sunrise) for the last man in the line. This budget converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust. It adds a new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of the society.”

People Men Lasts Lines Poor India Add Budgets Aspiration Rays Sunrise Sections New Life Governance Downtrodden Ray Of Hope

Author:Narendra Modi

“For interiors, if you have a basic sofa, you can add fun throw pillows, and cool lighting to make the space more interesting. In fashion, you make a little black dress really amazing with jewelry, shoes and an incredible bag. If you have those clean, basic, pieces you can really mix things up with the accessories and make the space, or the outfit, uniquely your own.”

Ifs Littles Fun Black Space Interesting Pieces Fashion Dresses Add Clean Incredibles Shoes Bags Interiors Pillow Jewelry Lighting Accessories Sofas Really Amazing

Author:Jeremiah Brent

“If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.”

Ifs Years Add Eight Alcohol Substitutes Pot Weed Marijuana Tobacco Cannabis Funny Marijuana Funny Weed Ganja Great Weed

Author:Jack Herer

“Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.”

Wonderful Add Shoes Bags Gray Elegant Elegance Scarves Inexpensive

Author:Carolina Herrera

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

Love Giving Firsts Heart Done Millions Thousand Kissing Hundred Give Me Twenties Add Score Valentine's Day Kiss Me First Kiss Romantic Kiss Kissing Funny Just Kiss Me

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.”

“Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.”

Men Reason Fool Add Admiration Flattery Sycophants

Book:The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.”

Ifs Religion Fall Worst Civilization Taste Weapons Mass Evidence Destruction Add Recipes Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Insufficient Clockwork Diabolical

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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