Jemaine Clement Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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I am totally unattached to material items.
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Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.
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It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
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I grew up in front of a TV.
