Ellen Barkin Quotes
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.
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We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.
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I tried to be just a singer of standards when I was starting out. And there was nothing special enough about my voice to make it that far. So I feel a bit like Rod Stewart. Once you've had that rock career, people will give you that chance where otherwise they might not.
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Old is the new sexy.
