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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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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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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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.
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There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Hector Elizondo and Adam Arkin were two guys I liked a lot.
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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.
