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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Make space in your life, space for health and happiness.
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The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written; the episode of the Grand Inquisitor, one of the peaks in the literature of the world, can hardly be valued too highly.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.
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When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
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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.
