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The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
Spike Milligan
Life
War
News
Men
Every
Unless
Way
Wing
Soon
Over
Becoming
How
Getting
Stop
Psychiatric
Break
Used
Planning
Wars
Lunacy
Every Chance
Chance
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.
Spike Milligan
War
Game
Cheating
Feeling
Thinking
Thirty
Markers
Say
Alive
Hoping
Someone
He
Days
Come
Private
Wooden
Across
Graves
Cards
Fourteen
Number
I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'
Spike Milligan
Life
Me
Remember
Sky
Will
Three
My Life
Looking
Stars
Thinking
Lying
Those
All My Life
Out
Above
Vast
Head
Well
Bed
Am
Were
Up
Quiet
Wherever
Right
Row
Belong
My goal before I die is to get all of my thoughts out.
Spoken Reasons
Thoughts
Before
Out
Goal
Get
Die
The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
Stella Young
You
Living
About
Disability
Any
Works
Thing
Adapt
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
Stella Young
Daily
People
Simple
Think
Our
See
About
Simple Thing
Disability
Disabled
Know
Expect
Really
Lives
Daily Lives
Thing
Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.
Stella Young
Pride
First
Enormous
Our
Our Lives
Those
Jobs
Find
Faced
Disabilities
Throughout
Take
Particularly
Employment
First Place
Least
Discrimination
Persistent
Trying
Place
Us
Who
Many
Lives
Careers
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
Stephen Colbert
Visa
Status
Status Quo
Accept
American
American Express
Quo
Express
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
Stephen Colbert
Inspirational
Time
Myself
Stuff
Like
Make
Make Up
Am
Up
Than
Used
Cool
Professional
Cooler
Found
Why
Why Not
Bio
There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?
Stephen Colbert
You
Business
Ego
Degree
Narcissism
Healthy
Would
Involved
Without
Listen
Anybody
Want
Anything
Mean
Show
Show Business
Why
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
Stephen Colbert
You
Age
Yourself
Own
Bonus
Everybody
Wikipedia
Minutes
Seem
Entry
Smarter
Make
Edit
Five
Famous
Expert
Your
Special
Even
Media
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry
Truth
Freedom
Language
Lover
Tolerance
Worshipper
Purity
Altar
Am
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
You
Seen
Backward
Know
Doing
Exists
Infant
Clothing
Why
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
Art
Think
Television
Destroys
About
Oneself
Talking
Watch
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Stephen Fry
Coward
Enough
Bit
Lazy
Oddly
I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
Art
Think
Destroys
TV
About
Oneself
Talking
Watch
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin
Dignity
Gentleman
Cowardly
Beneath
He
Wrong
However
Any
Disgusting
Might
Apology
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
Art
People
Comedy
Laugh
Without
Making
Them
Puke
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin
Alone
You
Man
Illusion
Think
Relationships
Easier
Circumstances
Solitary
Loner
Given
More
Casual
Had
Idea
Know
Also
Because
Person
Childhood
Romantic
Meant
Your
Raised
Pose
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin
Funny
Word
Everything
Those
French
Boy
Different
I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.
Steve Martin
You
Yourself
Response
One Thing
Find
Something
Inspired
Idea
Leads
Like
Another
Off
Going
Then
Tweet
Thing
The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.
Steve Martin
Love
You
People
First
Strikes
Way
About
Something
Hear
Lot
Very
Banjo
Certain
Who
Many
Compelling
Thing
Players
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.
Steve Schirripa
Good
Mistakes
Everybody
Mine
Good Parent
Parent
Make
Answer
How
Gonna
Here
Thinks
Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
Steven Wright
Me
Weird
Just
Here
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
Steven Wright
You
Walks
He
Announcer
Talk
Him
George
Hear
Radio
Bridge
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
Steven Wright
Me
Writing
Reading
Gear
Somehow
Write
Head
Turns
Your
Helps
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