Al Jourgensen (Allen David Jourgensen) Quotes
I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.
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If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
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Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.
