#mission

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#audience #commissioners #constantly #dawns #different

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#else #greatest #human #i #i can

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#always #big #bigger #course #creating

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#agreement #any #arbitrary #before #bring

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#before #bring #bringing #chaos #done

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#effectively #efficiently #limited #limited resources #make

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people. ↗

— Julie Walters

#allow #almost #certain #certain age #get

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#averted #been #commission #crisis #current