Agnes Meyer Driscoll Quotes
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I've never been a partier.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.' He winks. 'But not without one hell of a fight.'
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For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that's all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.
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When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.
