Janeane Garofalo Quotes
I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Chicago made me. They can treat me however they want to treat me anywhere else in the country. When I go back home, they treat me like I'm a star.
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For all the advances of modern societies, traditional tribal communities may have better served the essential needs of people for emotional support, nutrition, and exercise than does contemporary society. We don’t need to return to the ways of our ancestors, but we do need to learn from them.
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I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.
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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
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I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.