Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus) Quotes
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.
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Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.
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Know what your'e worth and demand three times that.
