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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The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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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.
