"There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close."

-- Barbara Stanwyck

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“The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.”
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
“I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.”
“We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.”
“The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.”
“As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not extreme chromaticism.”
“The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most important decision reached in the New World. Everywhere in the western world of the 18th century, church and state were one; and everywhere the state maintained an established church and tried to force conformity to its dogma.”
“Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.”

Source : "SIR MIX-A-LOT: The Forward-Thinking Hip-Hop Icon Is Getting Back Into The Entertainment Industry". Interview with Nick Hughes, www.businessinsider.com. June 22, 2011.

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