Munky (James Shaffer) Quotes
What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
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When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.
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I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
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If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
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Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.
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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
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What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.
