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Lea DeLaria Quotes

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

Lea DeLaria

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 23, 1958

Topics

Man Baby World Feel You Place

I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.

John Guare

School Writing Television Drama Go

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Robert Scoble

Work People Me World Hurt Head

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Roy Barnes

Never Forget Forget Will Never Like

These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

Mickey Rivers

Old Wheels Meals Guys Eligible

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.

Joshua Foer

Memories Best Creative People Think

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

Christen Press

Good Tears Face Enough Remember

Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.

Colin Kaepernick

Football Win Play Go Will Out

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk

God Cancer Us Give Finally He

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

Simple Story Someone Violence Boring

For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.

Peter Agre

Science Me Gift Discovery Years

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

Tina Brown

Woman School Roots Problems Deep

I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going.

Lynn Good

Keep Going Plan You Defeat Three