Amy Sedaris Quotes
I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
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From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.
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It's about the athletes. The Special Olympics is such an amazing part of the community and I want to support them and inspire them like they inspire us.
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The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.
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I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
