Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus) Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
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I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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I paint for the check cashing place down the street.
