Andrea Barber Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I have a pig valve.
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You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.
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The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
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I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.
