Bill Konigsberg Quotes
As I said, it wasn't even a gay thing. But it made me think how hard some kids have it with their families. Me, I could show up as Lady GaGa dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and Mom would be like, "How was your day, honey?" That's just not the case for most kids.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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I don't think my father was my mentor.
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My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.
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If you eat every two hours, your body doesn't really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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As I said, it wasn't even a gay thing. But it made me think how hard some kids have it with their families. Me, I could show up as Lady GaGa dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and Mom would be like, "How was your day, honey?" That's just not the case for most kids.
