Ellen Barkin Quotes
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home.
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The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.
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Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
