Alison Bechdel Quotes

Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh... maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.

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• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Violence
  • Organization

• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Culture
  • You
  • Military

• My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Day
  • Name
  • April

• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Good
  • Words

• The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ocean

• A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Accident

• In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

  

  Cam
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Unique
  • Celebrate

• I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Acting
  • Stage
  • Say

• Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Crime
  • Obviously
  • Pays

• It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • Truth
  • Free

• I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Phone
  • Torture
  • Secretary

• You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Trust
  • Discover

• Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got.

  

  Chris Brown
  • Why
  • She
  • Girl

• I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?

  

  Jenny Zhang

• We influence singing but never really songwriting.

  

  Charles King
  • Singing

• I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Photography

• Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh... maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.

  

  Alison Bechdel