Seth MacFarlane Quotes
Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
Quotes to Explore
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.
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If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.
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A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.
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I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.
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Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
