I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.
We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.
If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice.
All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
Go to the Scriptures. . . the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.