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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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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There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.
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When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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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.
