"An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Terry Gross

#Mother Quotes #Self Quotes #Differences Quotes

“There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes”
“Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.”
“The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.”
“Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.”
“If you don't have a goal, any road will do.”
“A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.”

Source : The Office Economist, Vol. 17-21. p. 145, 1935.
“European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.”
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.”

Source : "Email (let's drop the hyphen)". Article on a personal home page at Stanford University, www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.

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