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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. ↗

— Burl Ives

#birds #black #blew #center #cool

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ↗

— David Ives

#because #challenge #comedy #english #form

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#average #average american #day #every #girl

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#less #more #more and more #noted #say

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#also #be original #brother #cannot #fail

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#days #flat #got #hooked #i

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#about #always #appreciation #gave #great

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#exams #fear #gone #high #high school

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #democratization #east #how #in other words

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#darkness #knowledge #only #separates #us