Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
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I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
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In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.
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A Socrates in every classroom.
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The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.
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The more conservative you dress, the more you can get away with.
