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.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Money
  • Globalization

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

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

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

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• 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
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• 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
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• 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
  • Human

• Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Order
  • Big
  • Out

• 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
  • Baseball

• 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
  • Summer
  • Angry

• 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
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• 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
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Chinese

• 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

• A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Good
  • Important
  • Words

• It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • People
  • Great
  • Job

• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Age
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Years

• True happiness springs from moderation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Happiness
  • Moderation
  • Springs

• 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