Amy Sedaris Quotes
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen do is drop in letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.
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Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
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But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.
