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 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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Fashion is not art. Never.
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'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a really good thing.
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The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us who believe not only have we not lost, but we're winning.
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Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
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To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
