Maya Rudolph Quotes
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I had a fundamental love of fashion, of products and accessories. I loved the merchandising side of it and understanding how to maximize sales.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.
