Betsey Johnson Quotes
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.
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The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
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They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.
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What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
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I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
