Janis Ian Quotes

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

Janis Ian

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The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

Jeff Bridges

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I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

Steven Moffat

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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Steve Martin

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If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

Sibel Kekilli

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We're the party that's fought for increased wages, fought for the union movement, fought to make sure that collective bargaining is not eviscerated, it's strengthened. And when we communicate those messages, we succeed.

Tom Perez

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

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The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Ruth Park

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Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

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Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

Dieter Rams

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I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.

Diane Lane

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If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

Christopher Guest

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