Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

Basically, I think some of the weight helped take some of the walls down in reality, so basically I got a little more confident. I'm definitely not super confident, but I am confident that I don't have to hide behind those layers of fat and that I can actually open up to people a little more.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Losing
  • Circle

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Politics
  • Spring

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sensitive

• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Understand
  • Profound

• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Work
  • Law
  • Lie

• Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Guy

• If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Support
  • Woman

• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • American
  • Freedom

• When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Know
  • Chances

• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Play
  • Inside

• Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time

• Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• Basically, I think some of the weight helped take some of the walls down in reality, so basically I got a little more confident. I'm definitely not super confident, but I am confident that I don't have to hide behind those layers of fat and that I can actually open up to people a little more.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality