Dave Obey Quotes

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

Dave Obey

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Awards shows... I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

Jesse Plemons

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How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Method Man

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As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

Trixie Mattel

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I would never put my songs in a commercial.

Tom Petty

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It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

Mary McDonnell

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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.

Chloe Sevigny

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I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

Christopher Golden

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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'

Brian Grazer

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My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Brenda Song

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There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

Alissa Quart

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