Emma Goldman Quotes
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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'Reverence for parents' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.
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Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.
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Make dinner with the goal of stretching it out for lunch in the back of your mind. Making more of one thing is cheaper than buying more varied ingredients for each meal.
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We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption - proven throughout all our activity in the Land - that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
