"Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations."

-- Mallory Ortberg

#People Quotes #Attention Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.”
“Actors donâ€™t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.”
“When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.”

Source : "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.
“You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.”
“Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.”
“He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.”
“I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.”
“Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.”

Source : "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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