Catherine O'Hara (Catherine Anne O'Hara) Quotes
You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
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On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.
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I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.
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You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.
