Emma Goldman Quotes
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.
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Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.
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There's no control in life, is there? There's only one who's in control, and He'll take me when He wants me. I don't want to know about it. It's none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won't be painful and that He forgives me my sins.
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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
