Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
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I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.
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It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
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Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
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Without God, for me, I'm not the best version of myself.
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You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
