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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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
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I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?
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I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is very important because you need to be on your word game if you want to be a lyricist.
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I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.
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'I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.'
