"My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important."

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Source : "You & A Guest". Live chat, www.breakupgirl.net. July 15, 1999.

Lea DeLaria

#Hero Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Important Quotes

“Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'”
“Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.”
“Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.”
“I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'”
“We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media
“If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.”
“I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.”
“If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not”

Source : Song: The Things That Stop You Dreaming, Album: All the Little Lights

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