Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Rita Mae Brown

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• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
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• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
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• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
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• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
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• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
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• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Radio
  • Holocaust

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Day
  • End
  • Cheating

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

  

  Leonard Slatkin

• I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Iceberg

• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Writing