Valerie Faris Quotes
I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.
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I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.
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I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.
