Kristen Schaal Quotes
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I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.
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The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield.
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I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function.
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
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Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.
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I loved 'Burning Love,' and I really do love almost everything Paul Scheer touches.
