"Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation."

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Source : "Random Rules: Alex Borstein". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2006.

Alex Borstein

#Listening Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.”
“No matter what kind of day I've had at school, I always look forward to golf.”
“If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.”

Source : "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.
“When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.”
“Capitalismâ€™s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,”
“The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.”
“The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.”
“In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.”

Source : Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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