Jorma Taccone Quotes
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here.
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I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
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While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
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I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.
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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
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I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
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Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.
