W. Kamau Bell Quotes

Growing up in the Midwest, Boston, and Alabama, I didn't know any Puerto Ricans... at least, I didn't know if I knew any Puerto Ricans. The only Puerto Rican that I had ever even heard of was Juan Epstein, one of the students from the classic 1970s sitcom 'Welcome Back, Kotter.'

W. Kamau Bell

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I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

John Candy

MirrorYouLookEatBeginsWho

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

Joe Torre

LifeGoodGreatStressMy LifeDeal

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

Megan Mullally

GayNobodyNowPilotMoreNever

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

Stephen M. Walt

WonderfulWellMiddleWouldZone

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Sue Townsend

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That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

Skitch Henderson

MusicMindStrongDoingTelevision

It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.

Rusty Schweickart

WaterDaySpaceThinkEarthGravity

I work with men a lot, and there's a yin and a yang that goes on when you work one guy and one girl. And there's things that I bring that they don't bring and things they bring and I don't bring.

Roisin Murphy

WorkGirlMenYouBringGuy

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

Miguel Nicolelis

NatureSoulThinkTalkingYouBody

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

Mika

BathroomSmellPlasticSomething

The only tweets I feel bad about are the fat-chick ones.

Mike Cernovich

BrandBuildTacticsUse

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a career out of it.

Diana DeGarmo

Little ThingsTheatreDoingYouOut

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