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• That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.

  Paul Reiser

  Nice, Laughing, Development

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• Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.

  Duncan Long

  Mistake, Spring, Creativity

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• In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.

  Gideon Glick

  People, Collaboration, Pieces

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Dog, Animal, Captivity

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• I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Uncles, Laughter

  "My Life". Book by William J. Clinton, 2004.

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Fundamentals, Human Life, Approach

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (1984). “Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Rude

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• Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.163, SIU Press

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• If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and network," and my response to that is, "No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored." That's the thing.

  Scott Glenn

  Differences, People, Break

  "Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.

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• I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Bird, Looks

  "Exclusive: Jonathan Franzen sounds off on bird poaching, climate change and “performing love”". Interview with LIindsay Abrams, www.salon.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Personality, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

  Huston Smith

  Art, World, Great Work

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Writing, People

  Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.

  Hakim

  Art, Emotional, Dancing

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• I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Color, Portraiture, Shapes

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• There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.

  Jim Marrs

  Morning, War, Exercise

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• People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.

  Candy Chang

  Wall, People, Laughing

  Candy Chang (2013). “Before I Die”, p.14, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Heart, College, Cities

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• I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Lying, Usual

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness", p. 282, 1993.

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• We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.

  Germaine Greer

  Zoos, Thinking, Animal

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Space, Choices

  "First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

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• A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.

  George F. Kennan

  Mistake, Principles, Doctrine

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

  Robert Reich

  Answers, Inequality, Solutions

  "Robert Reich Sounds Off On How America Has Failed Its Students". Interview with Danny Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2015.

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