Kate Clinton Quotes
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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H. Schwarzenbach is a very traditional place. The store opened in the late 1800s, importing specialty items from all over the world. It was curated before we even used that word.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
