"I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people."

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Source : "Obama Unleashes 'Inner Angst' in 4th Q of Presidency". Cecily Strong's remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.truthrevolt.org. April 26, 2015.

Cecily Strong

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

Source : "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.
“A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones”
“I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.”
“I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.”
“That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.”

Source : "BAY AREA / Storms head for soggy Bay Area / 'Wet, windy' through end of the week" by A. Estrella, www.sfgate.com. December 28, 2005.
“At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.”
“I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.”
“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.”

Source : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.

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