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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. ↗

— Jack Dee

#came #depression #first #genuine #i

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#emcee #entertainment #got #i #mccartney

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression. ↗

— Jack Dee

#because #cheered #corner #did #expression

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#before #different #does #done #exploit

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #dexter-morgan #failure #morgan #pessimism

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions. ↗

— Joan Blades

#because #distributor #established #how #information

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse. ↗

— Morris Dees

#caring #enough #lawsuits #our #people

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do. ↗

— Joan Blades

#aim #express #fact #in fact #members

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. ↗

— Joan Blades

#censure #clinton #congress #family #friends

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. ↗

— Joan Blades

#better #elections #got #much #percent