Maya Rudolph Quotes
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
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I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.
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I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.
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The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.
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I feel like I'm a drag queen.
