Lena Waithe Quotes
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.
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I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
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I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.
