Alison Bechdel Quotes
Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
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The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.
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But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
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I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
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Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
