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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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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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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That doll looks more like a black man than me.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs - 'The Isbell's' - on his front door, and he's got the damn apostrophe in there. I haven't strangled him yet.
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I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
