Ellen Barkin Quotes
I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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People have no concept of boundaries.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
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I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
