Jenifer Lewis Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.
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I remember after one of my dreadful moments on Real Time, where I was ganged up on by everybody, and I went to Starbucks the next day, and the typical liberal tattooed and pierced barista said "Hey, you were on Bill Maher last night. I'm a liberal, but I really admired that you had the courage to stand up to that rude audience."
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
