Ernestine Rose Quotes

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Ernestine Rose

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• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

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• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
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  • Want
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• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
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• Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
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• Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Change
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• Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Order
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• A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Real
  • Think
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• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Europe
  • China
  • France

• I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Brand

• One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were that grew up there versus, you know, my suburban upbringing. They have this innate resilience and toughness to them, and they're incredibly self-sufficient, usually from a pretty young age.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Up

• Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.

  

  Mary Halvorson
  • Time
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• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
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• My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.

  

  Jason Scott Lee
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• I just find things that work and embellish them.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work

• I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.

  

  Susan Ford
  • Character
  • Father
  • Honesty

• When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
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  • Money

• There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Mind
  • May
  • Sports

• I do feel like plus-size fashion is changing, but it's slowly changing. It's not growing as fast as we would all like.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Growing
  • Fashion

• Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Character
  • Law
  • Idea