Jeff Baena Quotes
For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
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And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.
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No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform.
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It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.
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Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
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The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.
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I believe in helping people who are down.
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The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
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In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.
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Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
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We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.
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Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
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In Rennen der Philosophie gewinnt, wer am langsamsten laufen kann. Oder: der, der das Ziel zuletzt erreicht.
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For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.
