Emma Goldman Quotes
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
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When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the red carpet, either.
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I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
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You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.
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Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
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Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.
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A man, an adult, is precisely what Aeneas is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.
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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.
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I'm always about optimism and exuberance. It's what I feel about fashion.
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What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.
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To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.
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Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
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Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
