Ellen Willis Quotes

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

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• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • World
  • She
  • Feel

• We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Beach
  • Guess
  • Beach Boys

• I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Courage
  • Dreams
  • Inspire

• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Think
  • Future
  • Dream

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Always
  • Evil
  • Will

• I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • New York
  • Dumb
  • Nervous

• If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Artist
  • End

• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Done
  • Business
  • Relationship

• Holy Joe:  And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts

  

  Jack Chick
  • Thoughts

• She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Music
  • She

• I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Hate

• SPORT Magazine's All-Time All Stars (Quentin Reynolds)

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Time

• Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Through them his paintings I breathe again.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Breathe

• It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Chess

• I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Road

• You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Daughter
  • Girls
  • Gentleman

• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Power
  • Democracy

• You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

  

  Ellen Willis