Chris Lilley Quotes
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono -
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
Kate Voegele -
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
Quincy Jones -
Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
Faith Prince -
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
Manmohan Singh -
I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
Malaika Arora Khan -
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Walter Jon Williams -
To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
Imelda Staunton -
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
Kamala Harris -
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
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We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
Karrine Steffans -
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.
Barry Ritholtz -
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
Maajid Nawaz -
I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
Flula Borg
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Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.
Aslaug Magnusdottir -
It becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the women behind it is as plain as can be. I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman. By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.
Rik Mayall -
I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie Smith -
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.
Asma Jahangir -
You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
Chris Lilley