Elayne Boosler Quotes
Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
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I think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor.
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I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.
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Everything can happen in the playoffs.
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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And brought of mighty ale a large quart.
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Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
