Ricki Lake Quotes
Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
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Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.
