George Allen, Sr. Quotes
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.
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In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.
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Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
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For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
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Persevere and get it done.
