Carol Leifer Quotes
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
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I hate competition.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.
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I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.
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My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
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There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
