Jami Attenberg Quotes

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

Jami Attenberg

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I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video.

Jodi Benson

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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

Jeremy Clarkson

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One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

John Catsimatidis

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Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

Meghan Daum

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Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to Mars, how will we create false economies and cultures to satisfy them? Vegas has the answer. People go there when they've nothing left to lose.

Robert Lepage

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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.

Jay Pharoah

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I like antagonizing the audience, poking at them.

Jason Mantzoukas

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I've done every job in the world, and movies, the only thing close to a movie that I've ever done is it's kind of like being in a band.

Dito Montiel

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Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.

Bob Wise

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