Emma Goldman Quotes
It is characteristic of theistic 'tolerance' that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
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It is characteristic of theistic 'tolerance' that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
