Madeline Kahn Quotes
I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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I get a little too obsessive with work.
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Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
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I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.
