Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.
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In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I was employed as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army. Throughout each of these jobs, we used different kinds of encryption to keep prying eyes out of information we handled.
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Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!
