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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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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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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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.
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Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
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You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.
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Live television invites a lot of comic relief, and I've definitely had my share. I got tongue-twisted on the word 'prevalent' once; had a homeless man accost me during a segment; and got my mic snagged off when a congressional staffer barged into my frame.
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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!
