Lynda Barry Quotes
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The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
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I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.
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The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly.
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I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
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My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.
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I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
