Gina Barreca Quotes

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

Gina Barreca

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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

John McLaughlin

CultureMindImpactSpiritStudying

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the reasons for that is it's borrowed from other cultures along the way, back to Mosaic law, the Greek age of reason, Roman law and the Roman order of government, and the Republican form of government, by the way that we're guaranteed in our constitution.

Steve King

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The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

Sol Hurok

SkyYouOverRoofLimitHead

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

Tomi Adeyemi

BookSayPublishWriterDidLeast

Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.

Jon Ronson

WorkPeopleToughThinkEnoughFilm

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

Debra Granik

HopeLookingSomeoneSeriouslyHard

I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.

Chris Eigeman

TimeMeFreeBrooklynWantNothing

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Cliff Stearns

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I was heavily involved in musical theater.

Brad Goreski

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Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Bruce Barton

BusinessMenWorldUpBottomJesus

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Auguste Comte

LanguagePoliticalPhilosophyRight

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

Allen Iverson

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