Jon Oringer Quotes
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.
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I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.
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Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.
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And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
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Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
