Bella Abzug Quotes
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
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'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.
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I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
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I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
