"When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny."

-- Billy Lawrence

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.”
“I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.”
“It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.”
“In truth, men speak too much of danger.”
“The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.”
“I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don't have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.”

Source : Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.
“For many people, the only reason to do anything is that it's best for them individually. And I think that's why planners have to be more realistic about devising policies so the stakeholders will say, "I see what you mean - that'll help me." I think expecting people to do the right thing for the right reason leads to a lot of failure in public policy.”

Source : Source: la.streetsblog.org
“Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right”

Source : 1886 Public letter, 7 May.

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