Carol Leifer Quotes - Page 2

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• I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

  Carol Leifer

  Unique, Minorities, Facts

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• Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

  Carol Leifer

  Cancer, Animal, Humane Way

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• Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

  Carol Leifer

  Growing Up, Animal, Years

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• I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

  Carol Leifer

  Comedy, Undone, Producers

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• Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.

  Carol Leifer

  Rip, Bucks, Lingerie

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• Oh, this is fun - went to a nude beach for the first time. Yeah, that's what I thought. You ever been to a nude beach? Thought it would be all sexy and hot. Oh my God, what a flubber fest! Everybody who shouldn't be naked is naked - didn't make me want to take off my clothes, made me want to take out my contacts.

  Carol Leifer

  Sexy, Beach, Fun

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• Like a lot of women, I'm bisexual. Once I have sex with you - bye!

  Carol Leifer

  Sex, Bisexual, Bye

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• My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

  Carol Leifer

  Falling In Love, Gay, Love Is

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• Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

  Carol Leifer

  Jobs, People, Sick

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• Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

  Carol Leifer

  Airports, Over You, Lasts

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• Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Islands, Long

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• I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

  Carol Leifer

  Minorities, Vegan, Enough

  "Carol Leifer's Jewish Lesbian Testimonial". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. July 15, 2009.

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• There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

  Carol Leifer

  Saws, Advantage

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• Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Father, Acceptance

  "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win". Book by Carol Leifer, www.today.com. March 2009.

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• Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

  Carol Leifer

  Baby, Thinking, Clock Is Ticking

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• My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

  Carol Leifer

  Gay, Kind, Late

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• I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

  Carol Leifer

  Want, Feels, Loses

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• I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

  Carol Leifer

  Children

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• The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!

  Carol Leifer

  Teenager, Parent, Said

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• I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

  Carol Leifer

  Thinking, Self, Starting Out

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.

  Carol Leifer

  Philosophy, Simple, Fans

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

  Carol Leifer

  Opportunity, Risk, Littles

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real 'Elaine' on Seinfeld!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• My stand-up act is very clean.

  Carol Leifer

  Clean

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• My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

  Carol Leifer

  Father, Guy, Kind

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• My father was a huge influence on me.

  Carol Leifer

  Father, Influence, Huge

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