Aristophanes Quotes
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
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We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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I am sure the grapes are sour.
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My thing is, I want to play for the team that wants me to be a part of them.
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If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.
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My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.
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We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
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I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.
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Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
