Curtis Sliwa Quotes
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
Quotes to Explore
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
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People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
