Emma Goldman Quotes

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Emma Goldman

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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.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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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.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Movie
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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.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
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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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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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.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?

  

  Clive Barker
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• My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

  

  Albert Brooks
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• Me personally, I'm always going to lead by example first. But there are moments where I need to use my voice and go up to a guy and get my message across.

  

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• To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

  

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• The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.

  

  Alex Abreu
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• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I live in Los Angeles where there is not that much in the way of theatre, so the La Jolla Playhouse is pretty much the only place that is on my radar, and when they have something going on, and I am available, I will certainly go in.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
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• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
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• Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

  

  Emma Goldman