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It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than ... GABRIELLE ZEVIN
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MATT MULLENWEG There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETT Truly, we never had the first argument, ... He was very funny, smart, well-spoken, and most of all, ...
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WENDY WALKER Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who wa... ROBERT FROST I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
JAMES L. BROOKS He was always proud of the fact that anyone could come in, and he could tell what size he wore.
JEFF FLAHERTY People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just...
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Sam always felt like a fool in this room. He sat in a too-big chair at one end of the table. Astrid ... MICHAEL GRANT He could be so descriptive on the radio, and I think he was the best I ever heard at making the tran...
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Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was... ROBERT GREENE John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
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The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA He is a self-educated person who read extensively and learned all he could about stocks and did well...
GWEN BLOUGH Garth was smart enough that he could have done just about anything. He was book savvy, and the thing...
JEFF GWALTNEY I've ... always thought he could be a big comedy star. The nice thing about 'Virgin' is that it show...
JUDD APATOW
He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in... MELINA MARCHETTA The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
Eddie understood that how he lugged bats was unimportant, ... What counted instead was hooking up wi... WARREN BUFFETT
Eddie understood that how he lugged bats was unimportant. What counted instead was hooking up with t... WARREN BUFFETT
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. MIKE MYERS
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA
[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you wi... LEE TREVINO He was always sweet and funny. If you needed something like a pencil or a piece of paper, he'd alway...
JANE FOLEY The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
JACK MARKELL He loved teaching, whether it was football or academically. He was always laughing and telling jokes...
STEVE DALE
The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan ‘b’. For t... CHRISTINA ENGELA I was proud of 'House, MD,' and I think it was good for what it was and remarkably smart for...
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen... AASIF MANDVI
I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd neve... JENNY HAN
People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on &#... DONALD TRUMP, JR.
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