- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was in high school when I was listening to Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch or Avril Lavigne - that time when female pop rock was really having a moment - and it really resonated with me. I started writing poetry, and I was learning how to play guitar at the time, but I didn't really put the two together for a while.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be the first female to main-event WrestleMania, and I just want to continue to get better and better and continue my dad's legacy.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw the female 'Ghostbusters,' but that's mainly because of my job, not because I wouldn't enjoy it.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charlotte Flair is continuing her father's legacy but paving her own, and she's opening the door for women all over the world to be superstars in a male dominated industry.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my dad walks into a room, he takes over the room, not because he's trying to, but because there's a respect of a lifelong career, and there's an energy coming from him. He is the alpha male in the room.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.
- Great Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
- Eventual
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- Nov 07, 2020