Emma Goldman Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I speak with my father about everything in my life.
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.
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I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
