Ernestine Rose Quotes
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I always have an item in mind that I want to wear; then, the next day, I put it on, and I love the 20-minute rush of frantically tearing clothes out of my wardrobe to go with it. And I honestly feel that's the best way to do it; there's no method to my fashion madness so to speak.
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Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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We were like bishops of opposite color.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
