Ernestine Rose Quotes
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Quotes to Explore
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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I have an incredibly high metabolism.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
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Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
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In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
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The world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from: he stalked up and down being angry, in futility;
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
