Janeane Garofalo Quotes
'I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.'
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Yes, I haven't had enough sex.
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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
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Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
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'I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.'
