Georgie Anne Geyer Quotes
The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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Fashion is one big family.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.
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There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
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I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
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When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.
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I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.
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I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.
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Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
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I'm not tied to any particular political line.
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I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.
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It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.
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I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.
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Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.
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The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.
