Alison Bechdel Quotes
Mo: I wish it were me instead of you.Sydney: Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
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No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.
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All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
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Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed.
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Mo: I wish it were me instead of you.Sydney: Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.
