Garry Trudeau Quotes
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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This love is silent.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.
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The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
