Eve Ensler Quotes

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Eve Ensler

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• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Know
  • Rock

• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
  • Song
  • Know
  • Puzzle

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
  • Think
  • Impossible

• If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Want
  • Stop

• I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

  

  Ian McShane
  • School
  • Happy
  • Teacher

• At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Always
  • Lonely
  • Insect

• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Discipline
  • Criticism

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • May
  • Character
  • Positive

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Popular

• Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Growing
  • Broken
  • New

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Peace

• And you throw your head back laughingLike a little kid.I think it's strange that you think I’m funny causeHe never did.I've been spending the last 8 monthsThinking all love ever doesIs break and burn and end.But on a Wednesday in a cafe,I watched it begin again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Funny
  • Wednesday

• Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Violence

• A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.

  

  Alar Toomre
  • Lucky
  • Discovery
  • Lifetime

• My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Relationship
  • Violence
  • Story