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I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8. -- Katy Perry
I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. -- Matt Taibbi
The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it. -- Bob Dole
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props. -- Adam Savage
Iâ??m searching for some exit poll data from California. Iâ??ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8. -- Dan Savage
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down. -- Zach Galifianakis
I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted. -- Geri Halliwell
Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now. -- Greta Scacchi
I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me. -- Isabella Blow
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop. -- Amy Sedaris
Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be. -- Melissa Joan Hart
If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries. -- Hillary Clinton
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. -- Desi Arnaz
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased. -- John Mellencamp
If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it. -- Philippe Petit
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. -- Reese Witherspoon
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. -- David Bowie
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up. -- Julian Baggini
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. -- Stephen Harper
I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. -- Mark Cuban
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere. -- Kirk Hammett
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. -- Martha Plimpton
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop. -- Naomi Wolf
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! -- Selena Gomez
My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out Detroit. It will cost the economy more than the cost of the bailout which is more than the politicians think. We'll run into the hundred of millions to prop these companies up. -- Peter Schiff
I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years. -- Adam Savage
And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up. -- Vince Flynn
I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! -- Selena Gomez
I'm not a big prop actor. -- Nathan Fillion
Tradition is a prop for social security. -- Walter J. Phillips
The personality must be bigger than the prop. -- Harry Blackstone, Sr.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. -- John Ruskin
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence. -- Elsa Maxwell
PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)An evil grin behind a smiling clown's maskKamil Ali -- Kamil Ali
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power. -- Benazir Bhutto
Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition. -- Jacques Deval
June Cleaver didn''t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it. -- Barbara Billingsley
Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop. -- Carrot Top
I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop. -- Will Gluck
Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are. -- Johnny Weir
Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos. -- Lou Reed
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up. -- Sophie Kinsella
I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy. -- Andrew Dice Clay
Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up. -- Chris Stapleton
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. -- Mark Twain
I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera, -- James Gandolfini
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. -- Rush Limbaugh
Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. -- Martha Ronk
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up! -- Madonna Ciccone
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop. -- Deborah Tall
Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop. -- Joe Eszterhas
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block? -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The old clichÃ© in theater is, if you're nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law? -- Mahatma Gandhi
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures. -- Aaron Belz
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should. -- Cesare Pavese
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. -- Pankaj Mishra
A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine. -- Robert Herrick
I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you -- Tim Relf
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect. -- Amy Lee
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity. -- William Wordsworth
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not. -- Sara Zarr
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -- William Shakespeare
Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck. -- George W Truett
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. -- David O. Selznick
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories. -- Peter Morgan
If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it. -- Myrtle Reed
Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise. -- Vicki Lawrence
I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange. -- Demetri Martin
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances. -- George H. Smith
I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. -- Benicio Del Toro
If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership. -- Barack Obama
Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue. -- Jonathan Tropper
It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely

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