Betty Gilpin Quotes
If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
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I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
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The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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The Pop art I wound up doing came to me purely from 'Mad' comics. I loved the idea of doing fun stuff. I met an art dealer who wanted to show the work - that was in January 1962 - and that was the beginning for me.
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If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.
