Bridget Everett Quotes
It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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For the rain it raineth every day.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
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Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
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It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.
