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I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#could #did #different #different types #going

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#am #become #computers #generation #grow

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#eat #food #good #incomprehensible #kind

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people. ↗

— Dane Cook

#being #cheek #close #clubs #comedian

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.' ↗

— Dane Cook

#mom #nickname

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact! ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#contact #mr #only #rogers #sesame

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. ↗

— Scott Cook

#costs #customer #dramatically #even #focus

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me. ↗

— Scott Cook

#business #could #dream #even #fact

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those. ↗

— Tim Cook

#confused #focus #get #goal #lead