HumorRobert Mankoff Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on – that was something I had. – Robert Mankoff Field Quotes Humor Quotes Levels Quotes Playing Quotes Understood Quotes The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste. There’s public humor, and there’s private humor, and they’re all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn’t – just as you wouldn’t have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends – things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
Sarah Weinman When I first read Helen Weinzweig’s ‘Basic Black with Pearls’ several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens when a book seems to ferret out your most secret thoughts and hopes. Since then, I’ve described the book to others as an ‘interior feminist espionage novel.’ – Sarah Weinman
Stewart Udall I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. – Stewart Udall
Francis Ngannou As a challenger, I need and want to fight some people because that would give me the opportunity to get to the title shot. – Francis Ngannou
Kate Brown I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them… There’s no better place to fight for working families than the governor’s chair. – Kate Brown
Ben Howland UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That’s just the way it is. – Ben Howland
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