Barry Humphries Quotes
Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Great men marry great women.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
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Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.
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Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
