"There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government."

-- Bassem Youssef

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“Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!”
“I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.”
“As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.”
“It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.”
“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ...”
“A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.”

Source : Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.163, Image
“Some street jokes are just timeless. There's an old street joke about comedians. The joke is that a beautiful girl comes up to a comedian at the end of the night and says, "I saw your show tonight, and I just loved it. I want to go home with you, and I'll do anything you want." And the comedian says, "Were you at the 7 or the 9?" That's just a perfect joke, because it points out how egomaniacal and obsessive comedians are. Even though I'm not waiting for a groupie, I can completely understand it. It just defines how comedians are driven.”
“The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.”

Source : 11th R.A. Fisher Memorial Lectures Royal Society 20 April 1983

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