It’s the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you’re able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
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More Rosie O'Donnell Quotes
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The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn’t find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
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I’d love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, ‘This one’s gone!’ while he puts a sheet on me.
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Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
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The hope for me going back into television – after doing what will have been two years of radio – is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
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I’d always admired writers. I’d always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.
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I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
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Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.
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When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, “This is who you are. You’re okay in this lady, and you’re a great, healthy, lovable and loving person.” I try to accept myself.
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Are you fat because you’re a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you’re fat?
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As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their countries Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.
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We really did. We got married.
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I think life is easier if you’re straight.
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I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
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Why do you think people don’t think that homosexual parents are good? You don’t know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don’t let these children suffer without families because of your bias.
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I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn’t been in two hundred years, and if America doesn’t stand up, we’re in big trouble.
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