Ted Rall Quotes
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
