Amy Sedaris Quotes
I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second - but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.
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I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.
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I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.
