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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A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.
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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
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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.
