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“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”
Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).
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“I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.”
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“Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift focus from civil to silver rights were interrupted by his untimely death. He fought ardently for Black rights, but he also recognized financial literacy as the key to an America that was truly free for all people.”
Source : Source: www.ebony.com
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“Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.”
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“I like the aesthetics of the Church.”
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“Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.”
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“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”
Source : Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”
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“When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.”
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“The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”
Source : William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.”
