Janeane Garofalo Quotes
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
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You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - 'While you live Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return'.
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
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Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
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It's very frustrating not being on the air.
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I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.
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If you are part of the majority it can be hard to realise how much it matters to see people who do look like you, and can relate to you on a really simple level especially when you are growing up. I had a happy childhood in other aspects, but being different in this way was something that has probably shaped me in some ways.
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The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
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'All roads lead to my dogs, don't they?'
