James Bobin Quotes
If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
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My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
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I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.
