"Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof."

-- Stephen Leacock

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“Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.”
“I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.”
“I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.”
“Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.”

Source : "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.
“I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.”
“With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.
“I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.”
“I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in this ancient wisdom that in Arabic culture is often quoted. Those proverbs are such a huge part of the language and parts of people's every day. This is the wisdom that we use in our everyday life but we're not always listening to.”

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