Ideas generally come in a very complicated form, and you've got to strip them down to make them usable. Boil a gag down to its simplest form, and it is readily discernible to anybody who sees it.


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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have ...
CARL SAFINA
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being ...
CARL SAFINA
Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and...
CARL SAFINA
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you&...
CARL SAFINA
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn'...
CARL SAFINA
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS
If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
CARL REINER
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't...
CARL REINER
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
CARL REINER
A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ...
CARL REINER
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
CARL REINER
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
CARL REINER
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
CARL REINER
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
CARL REINER
At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I tho...
CARL RAKOSI
Friends are not made, but recognized.
CARL RAKOSI
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
CARL RAKOSI
If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
CARL PERKINS
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood....
CARL PERKINS
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
CARL PERKINS
I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don...
CARL PALADINO
I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
CARL PALADINO
All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of O...
CARL PALADINO
I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous ef...
CARL PALADINO
I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Te...
CARL PALADINO
I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the c...
CARL PALADINO
If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an ...
CARL PALADINO
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, t...
CARL PALADINO
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate ...
CARL PALADINO