Alex Borstein Quotes

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Struggle

• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Myself

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Space

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Philosophy
  • District
  • Fits

• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Enlightenment

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Like
  • Social
  • Autism

• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Political
  • Change

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • House
  • Like
  • Disney

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Military
  • Strength
  • Form

• A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• I'm lucky to have fallen into this trade, and I'm still fighting to stay in it.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Fighting

• I'm obsessed with eyeliner - the darker and kohl-ier, the better.

  

  Aja Naomi King

• Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

  

  Christine Vachon
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Vision

• We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the outside world that I was judged and I wasn't loved. That was very clear to me, that I wasn't loved. So I became very quiet. You know, those little girls you see in those pictures that look like they want to hunch, I was trying to disappear into my shoulder blades. The quietest person in the classroom, that was me. But that wasn't me at home.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • World
  • Trying
  • Home

• I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

  

  Alex Borstein
  • Parents
  • Girl