Jeff Greenfield Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
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I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.
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I feel like a lot of fans would like to see me with the heavyweight championship.
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Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
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When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.
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I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.Inaction, no falsifying dreamBetween my hooked head and hooked feet:Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
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Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
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The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
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It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
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Love is serene and calm
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I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.
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I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
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A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
