Martha Gellhorn Quotes
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
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Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
