Amy Sedaris Quotes
I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.
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Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
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It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.
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My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.
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I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.
