Jill Sobule Quotes
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
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I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
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I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
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For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
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People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to keep doing things the old way - and one thing that has always bummed me out is when we get a single three months out, and then you have to keep getting fed with bread crumbs.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.
