Eve Ensler Quotes

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

Eve Ensler

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• As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Stress

• People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Work
  • Law

• Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Game

• If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Same
  • Talk

• My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Favorite
  • Cameron
  • Julia

• Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Dramatic

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• 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…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up

• I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Long

• I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

  

  Jamie Hince

• I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Why
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

  

  Dawn French
  • People

• There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

  

  George Best
  • Great
  • Power
  • Single

• In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

  Colson Whitehead
  • College

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Band

• I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Violence
  • Security
  • Operate