George Meyer Quotes

• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  George Meyer

  Mentira, Futuro, Hombres

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• There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

  George Meyer

  Laughing, Release, Tension

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

  George Meyer

  Writing, Reality, Balls

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• I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

  George Meyer

  Catholic, Looks, Realizing

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.

  George Meyer

  Religious, Wonderful Friends, People

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.

  George Meyer

  Believe, Eye, Sky

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

  George Meyer

  Agnostic, Realizing, Position

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• I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.

  George Meyer

  Book, Laughing, Perspective

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

  George Meyer

  Eggs, Coward, Weapons

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• You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

  George Meyer

  People, Suffering, Would Be

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

  George Meyer

  Struggle, Men, Forever

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

  George Meyer

  Strong, Pharaohs

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.

  George Meyer

  Individuality, Antagonism, Lama

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

  George Meyer

  Girl, Baby, Religious

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• La gente que parece tener el poder asegurado es barrida en un par de años. Así que es ingenuo seguir atacando los mismos objetivos una y otra vez. Tardé mucho en darme cuenta de que la mayoría de los grilletes contra los que luchaba eran ilusorios.

  George Meyer

  Couple, Years, Long

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Desconfío profundamente de las instituciones sociales y de la tradición en general.

  George Meyer

  Tradition, Social, Institutions

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

  George Meyer

  Daughter, Long, Parenthood

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.

  George Meyer

  Coffee, Army, Men

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• Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

  George Meyer

  Clever, Versions, Eunuchs

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• When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

  George Meyer

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.

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• As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

  George Meyer

  Needs, Sometimes, Shakes

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

  George Meyer

  Children, School, Eagles

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.

  George Meyer

  Believe, Challenges, Tiny

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds.

  George Meyer

  Smart, Ideas, People

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.

  George Meyer

  War, Space, Population

  Fuente: www.ericspitznagel.com

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