"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."

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Source : Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

Robert Benchley

#Work Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.”
“I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.”
“So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.”
“I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.”

Source : "Action Bronson in the Lap of Luxury". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”
“People who make use of all their senses in trying times are no less patriotic than those whose restraint is lost, whose senses are dimmed and whose brains are washed. This is also the time for the patriot to say: Enough.”
“Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).”
“Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.”

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