Andrew Denton Quotes
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Obviously, I do feel I'm scrutinised a bit too much and people are judging me. All I do is keep my head down and work, work, work.
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Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
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Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.
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I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
