Angela Rye Quotes
I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
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Because you can’t kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure.
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I'm proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the time - they say, 'What are you'? - I say I'm Irish. I'm Puerto Rican. I guess I was born to fight.
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I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
