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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SPORT Magazine's All-Time All Stars (Quentin Reynolds)
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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.
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Through them his paintings I breathe again.
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It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.
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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.
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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
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I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. They said, 'You're a woman; enjoy yourself and believe that you can do things.'
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I don't tend to stand still for very long.
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My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
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I realize that you have to show up for your life.
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And still, even when he’d told her how he felt about her, and that he wanted their fake relationship to be real, she’d held herself back out of fear that their friends-to-lovers story was too good to be anything but fiction.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
