Eve Ensler Quotes
Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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People will never stop having kids, and people will never stop spending money on them to make sure they're safe, healthy, and educated.
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I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
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I loved psychology and I loved history.
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Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
