Ellen Barkin Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
