"All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter."

-- Fred Allen

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“The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.”
“We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.”

Source : Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.”
“I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.”

Source : "This much I know: Amory Lovins". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2008.
“And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.”
“I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.”

Source : Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr
“Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.”
“Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.”

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