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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.


John Mortimer
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Anne Grant
Tags: You Your World
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Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.


Mike Ditka
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.
Mike Nichols
Tags: Great Funny You
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I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.


Christopher Hitchens
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
Lord North
Tags: Men Who Being
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You can't express emotion without giving information.


Louis MacNeice
Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?
Chuck Todd
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.


Leon Kass
Tags: Man Woman Both
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
Veronica Webb
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.


Thomas Babington Macaulay
Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Hedy Lamarr
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tags: More Than Us
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.


Chuck Jones
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.


Ambrose Bierce
Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tags: You People Think
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.


Blaise Pascal
Tags: God Happiness Us
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I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.


Peter O'Toole
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