#statement

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#constant #effect #enlightenment #facts #freedom

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#challenged #cultural #general #going #kind

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contribution #english #understatement

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#every #feel #i #like #make

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedian #comedy #father #figure #funny

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#buffet #correct #dessert #did #expect

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#important #leading #most #movement #obamacare

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement. ↗

— Trent Lott

#apologize #choice #conveyed #could #discarded

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#band #believe #discover #fans #freedom

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#art #been #before #i #i see