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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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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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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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
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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.
