Flip Wilson Quotes
Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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You used to have to come to America for 18 months and drive around in a van, trying to get radio stations to play your song. But I remember One Direction's manager telling me that the first time they came to America, they hadn't released a song - they'd only been on 'The X Factor.' But there were 2,000 fans waiting at LAX airport.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
