Emma Goldman Quotes
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
