Brett Gelman Quotes
We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.
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We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
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People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.
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There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.
