Eve Ensler Quotes
Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.
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The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
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The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.
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The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.
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When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.
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However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
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What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
