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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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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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 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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When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'
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The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
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E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
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You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
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My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.
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I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.
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'There is perhaps nothing more important in the world today than the steadiness and consistency of the foreign policy of this Republic. Too much depends on the United States for us to indulge in the luxury of either undue pessimism or premature optimism.'
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
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It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
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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.
