People Quotes
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Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.
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I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
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I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.
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The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.
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I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.
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We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.
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When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.
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I tell people: 'Do what you love, but it can also be hard to know what you love early on. But when you think about it and you describe the options, which one gets you a little more excited?'
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I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.
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'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.
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There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
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We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.
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I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
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I think people now - you know, a lot of athletes have come out and said, I would definitely accept, you know, a gay male athlete in the locker room and on my team.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.
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I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.
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I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst, and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters - really, then, some people react to things like that; people get angry as well, and you fuel the fires.
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Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.
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I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
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I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
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A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.
