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Emmanuel Teney Quotes

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
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Love Fear Strong Enough Necessary

While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

School Me Growing Up Immigrants Up

I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.

More Different Than Some Comics

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Fail Greatest Would Than Sooner

There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.

Solange Knowles

People Say Mean Afraid Things About

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

Music Growing Up Loved Disco Growing

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Humility Me More Club Cancer Would

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

I Am Law Know Greatest Am

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

Wife Saying Fish House Down Three

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Theatre Desire Hollywood Little Part

I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

Men Hands You Big Move Veins

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Funny Think Quiet Sometimes Way

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Donald Rumsfeld

Mistakes You Fast President Tell Up

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