Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Al Yankovic: Parody writing
Happy Birthday, Al Yankovic! “So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.”
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Donald Trump: Bad experience
“I say the one thing you have over me is experience, but it’s bad experience because what you’ve done is turned out badly.” —Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Rip the baby out of the womb
“I think it’s terrible, if you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.” —Donald Trump has his own take on abortion during the third Presidential debate.
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John F Kennedy: Women politicians
“I’m always nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” —John F Kennedy.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Fear and power
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”—Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader, in her book Freedom from Fear.
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Bob Newhart:Stammering versus stuttering
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. Bob Newhart #InternationalStutteringAwarenessDay
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Shaggy: Next scare
”You never know where your next scare is coming from. You’ve just gotta find the courage to face it.” —Shaggy
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Hilary Clinton: Belittling women
“Donald (Trump) thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don’t think there’s a woman anywhere that doesn’t know what that feels like.” —Hilary Clinton.
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Deepika Padukone: Food
“I love food so much that I can’t tell the difference between good food and bad food. For me, food is food. The minute I see it, it is yummy and I have to eat it.” —Deepika Padukone.
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Hilary Clinton: Different Donald Trump
“Donald Trump is different. I said starting back in June that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. And many Republicans and independents have said the same thing. What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women.…
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Michel Foucault: Life and work
“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” —Michel Foucault.
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Donald Trump: Great respect for women
”Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.” —Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Flirting
“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” —Donald Trump.
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Nirmala Sitharaman: Cautious Indian companies
“I think Indian companies are cautious but the time for cautiousness is over. They should have the bullishness.” —Nirmala Sitharaman
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Narendra Modi: Capable army
“These days, everyone is talking about the army. Earlier Israel used to be spoken of like this. Now everyone knows that our army can do it too and is no less capable.” —Narendra Modi.
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Arthur Miller: Don’t be seduced
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” —Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005).
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Isadora James: Sisters
”A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” —Isadora James.
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Lin Yutang: Small men, big shadows
”When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” —Lin Yutang.
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Donald Trump: True friend
“If I am elected President, the Indian and Hindu community will have a true friend in (the) White House.” —Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Drug test
“We should take a drug test prior (to the third and final debate) because… I don’t know what’s going on with her. At the beginning of her last debate—she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, ‘Oh, take me down.’ She could barely reach her car. ” —Donald…
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Dennis Ritchie: Where C should go
”When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn’t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.” —Dennis Ritchie.
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Steve Jobs: Connecting the dots
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – – – your destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the…
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John Keats: My brothers
Here’s a poem by John Keats entitled To My Brothers: Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals, And their faint cracklings o’er our silence creep Like whispers of the household gods that keep A gentle empire o’er fraternal souls And while, for rhymes, I search around the poles, Your eyes are fix’d, as…
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Dennis Ritchie: UNIX
”UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.” —Dennis Ritchie.
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Bhawna Monga: Bragging
“Bragging is the new feel-good factor. You brag to feel good about your life on an everyday basis, because other people’s lives are staring at you from your phones and laptops, and they all look super ‘cool’.” —Bhawna Monga.
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George Clooney: Twitter
“I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they’re on Twitter.” —George Clooney.
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George Clooney: Facebook
“I’d rather have a rectal examination on live TV by a fellow with cold hands than have a Facebook page.” —George Clooney.
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Bob Dylan: Inconvenient repentance
”People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” —-Bob Dylan.
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Stephen Leacock: Dimpled wedding
“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.” —Stephen Leacock.
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Steve Harvey: This is business
You’ve got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. Steve Harvey #WorldStandardsDay
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Lillie Devereux Blake: Gender roles
People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles. -Lillie Devereux Blake, novelist, essayist, and reformer (12 Aug 1833-1913) .
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Michelle Dauber: Rage
“The rage you are seeing from women is not solely or even principally directed at Trump. It is at the institutions and leaders who are failing to take action and hold him accountable… Women are sick and tired.” —Michelle Dauber.
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Robert Green Ingersoll: Wild beast
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)
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Nida Fazli: Weeping child, laugh
”The mosque is too far from home, so let’s do this / Let’s make a weeping child laugh.” — Nida Fazli, poet (12 Oct 1938-2016).
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Jake Owen: Better man
“I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to…
