Word: okay
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Okay, I’m in love with a goat...
...Daily Show's official "resident expert." How did you get started on the show? In November 2005, I had gone on the show to promote my first book, The Areas of My Expertise. I was already a huge fan of The Daily Show, and I thought, Okay, this is about as strange as it's going to get in my life. I had a good time, Jon Stewart and I got along, and they ended up asking me to do comedy on a semi-regular basis. So then I thought, Okay, this is as strange as it's going...
...Morning Banana Diet regime is simple: A banana (or as many as you want) and room temperature water for breakfast; eat anything you like for lunch and dinner (by 8 p.m.). A three o'clock snack is okay, but no desserts after meals, and you have to go to bed before midnight. Sumiko Watanabe, a pharmacist in Osaka designed this stress-free diet to help increase the metabolism of her husband Hitoshi Watanabe, who had been rather overweight. In due course, Mr. Watanabe lost 37 pounds and introduced the diet on mixi, one of Japan's largest social networking services...
...think there is this sense that people have right now that the larger entities treat people like numbers and pieces of paper. To blindly continue to go along with that and just act as if that's okay because I have an order telling me to do that - I think people realize that that's the wrong way to go. How do you respond to critics like the Illinois Bankers' Association, who say you're ignoring the law, that this is a publicity stunt...
...object] or an idea, I think, “I want to keep it! How can I put that in [my novel]?” THC: Any advice for aspiring writers?MR: If the right story doesn’t come to you now, it’s okay. You have many years ahead of you. Somewhere down the road there will be a story you were meant to tell. You just have to have faith. —Interview conducted, condensed, and edited by Naomi C. Funabashi...