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.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI 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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I couldn’t imagine doing a show where I’d once again have to answer to corporate interests.
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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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There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they’re allowed to be a parent.
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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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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I’m not complaining about, but it’s just different than the reality you dreamed.
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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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If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco
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President Bush almost killed me.
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It’s probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.
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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 think that that’s always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.
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I know I’m a really good mother. I know it. I’m a really good mother.
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I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.
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I don’t think you choose whether or not you’re gay.
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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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Are you fat because you’re a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you’re fat?
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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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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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To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
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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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I think there’s no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.
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Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
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I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they’re legal harder to get.
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I love to be able to support other women comics.
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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 life is easier if you’re straight.
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