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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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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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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I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
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Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?
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People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.
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If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.
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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.
