Ina May Gaskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
-
Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
-
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
-
Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
-
Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
-
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
-
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
-
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
-
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
-
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
-
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
-
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
-
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
-
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
-
You get the older version of women that you've played before.
-
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
-
I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
-
I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.
-
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
-
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
