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Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.
Life in space isn't easy. It's full of challenges that push the limits of technology, and often requires truly innovative solutions.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.
I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.
A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Know your worth and please don't invest in toxic people or relationships, because any bond that requires servicing is not worth your time.
Without trust, no organization can sustain innovation because without trust, no one is willing to take the risks that innovation requires.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.
Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires a lot of effort.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.
The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.