Janeane Garofalo Quotes

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

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• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Proud
  • Equality

• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Know

• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Great
  • Different
  • May

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Unique
  • My Life

• One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Dubai

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Gift

• Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Game
  • Reality

• 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Film

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Thoughtful
  • Vulture

• I am completely Socratic.

  

  James C. Collins

• I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'

  

  Chris Cubas
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Small

• May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Women
  • City
  • Comedy