Brett Gelman Quotes
Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
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I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.
