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The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat. Matt Groening

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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. Maurice Strong

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We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand. Mercedes Ruehl

Tendency Understand Condemn

I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era. Michael Giacchino

In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all had a tendency to do that at some point in our career. So looking back on that, it's fun to laugh at it. Michael McDonald

Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge. Michael Oren

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I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. Michael Scheuer

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. Mike Gordon

Myself Band Jazz Other Imitate Others Way Something Tendency Catch Always Am Bands Jamming Much Jazz Band Each Riffs

There's this tendency to be held in great esteem if you are judgmental. A sort of moral policing, being opinionated. What right has one to act like judges? What right has one to police another? Mohanlal

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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack. N. K. Jemisin

Conservative Job Out Restore Perceived Tendency Whack Epic Fantasy

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas. N. K. Jemisin

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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. Natalie Imbruglia

Too Melancholy Tendency Had Towards Since Genetic Lean None Always Been Sisters Childhood Maybe Us Suffer Ever Thing Medication

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that. Natasha Trethewey

When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion. Naveen Jain

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Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. Nick Turse

Result Remember Will Unforeseen Consequences Secret Tendency Support New Disastrous Well Forces Islamic Nasty End End Result Soviet Soviet Union Afghanistan New Yorkers Against Produce Unintended Union

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye

Service Religion Culture Understanding Approach Worship Destroy Object Tendency Idolatry Intellectual Replace Essential Forms Present

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action. Opal Tometi

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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. P. J. Harvey

Life People Glasses Country See Tendency Through

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. Paul D. Boyer

Tendency Make Limited Information Choices Lucky Based Right

What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability. Paul Stanley

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. Peter Singer

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