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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I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.
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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
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Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.
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I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
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The more conservative you dress, the more you can get away with.
