#origin

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#authority #authority figures #comedian #every #everyone

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#become #characteristics #give #his #influential

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ↗

— William Bennett

#develop #difficulty #even #give #greater

Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#also #caught #doing #entertainment #guys

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bears #bodily #frame #his #however

What gets me excited is the original principle. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#gets #me #original #principle

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#book #creative #day #during #feel

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#being #came #capable #could #critics

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#formulating #irrational #laws #may #mind