Emma Goldman Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.
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Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
