Kate Clinton Quotes
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
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I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.
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As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
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I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.
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I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
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Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
