#stand

My girlfriend asked if I wanted to go see a politician give a speech on “Ethics”, and I said, Sure, I might enjoy a bit of stand-up comedy.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ethics #funny #humor #politicians #politics

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#city #enter #further #gaze #heaven

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#highest #most #never #perilous #point

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#dharma #know #neither #nor #nothing

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#body #buddhas #fictions #five #language

I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#any #believe #could #country #existence

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#blacks #christians #comedy #comic #elderly

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#come #comedy #concert #either #embrace

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#authority #children #entertainment #entertainment industry #everything