"It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict."

-- Mo Rocca

#Issues Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Sensitive Quotes

“Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.”
“I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.”
“Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.”
“The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.”
“What people don't realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can't make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.”

Source : Amby Burfoot (2005). “Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running”, p.47, Rodale
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”
“Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.”

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