Kathleen Madigan Quotes
Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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War is over if you want it.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
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Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
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'Bad Boys', which Bay made when he was just twenty-eight, having never made a movie before, having done a string of commercials and music videos with artists ranging from Donny Osmond to Meat Loaf, grossed more than $140 million worldwide.
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Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!
