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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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
