Emma Goldman Quotes
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
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My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
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All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
