Samantha Bee Quotes

'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016

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• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Memory

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Money
  • Pride

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Way
  • Me

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Different
  • Survival

• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Great
  • Think
  • Chinese

• Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Long
  • Water
  • Problems

• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Goal
  • End
  • Math

• In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Time
  • Live
  • School

• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Father

• Education is the development of power and ideal.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Education
  • Ideal

• I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Moment

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Brain
  • Weight
  • Cells

• I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Pick
  • Brush

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert.

  

  Katy Evans
  • Night
  • Dying
  • Desert

• It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

  

  Charles Duke
  • Intense
  • Blackness

• 'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016

  

  Samantha Bee