"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."
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"Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism."
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"The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art."
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"Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual."
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"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
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"Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air."
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"I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art."
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"You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of."
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"I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy."
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"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."
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"Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware."
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"If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way."
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"Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men."
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"It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them."
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"The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting."
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"Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose."
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"Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness."
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"Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad."
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"What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?"
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"Poet: gardener of epitaphs."
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