Janeane Garofalo Quotes
'I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.'
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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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'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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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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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.
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Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
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I built a relationship and a rapport with Muhammad Ali, and I could never top that experience.
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'I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.'
