#liz

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this. ↗

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ↗

#fail #fortune #good #good fortune #happiness

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#appeals #commercialization #culture #go #i

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#audience #go #how #i #much

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#also #becomes #child #only #realizes

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#civilization #interesting #mixture #salt

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. ↗

— George Takei

#came #camp #first #i #out

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. ↗