Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes
My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I love anything to do with serial killers.
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It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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The Wachowskis have a very complex way of thinking and of creating.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.
