Gary Owen Quotes

There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

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• If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

  

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• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

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• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

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• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

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• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

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• Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

  

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• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

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• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

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• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

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• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

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• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

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• What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

  

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• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

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• I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

  

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• Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

  

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• I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.

  

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• I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

  

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• I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

  

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• There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

  

  Gary Owen
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