Janeane Garofalo Quotes
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
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It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.
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Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.
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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
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For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
