Eve Ensler Quotes
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.Eve Ensler
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde -
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
Fan Bingbing -
I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
Oliver Reed -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett -
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
Lajos Kossuth -
It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
Dan Webster -
After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
Irina Shayk -
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls -
There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
Dan Brown -
I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
Gail Sheehy
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
Cameron Diaz -
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Joanne Rowling -
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
Earl Warren -
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Carl Yastrzemski -
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
Chaz Bono -
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
Yvon Chouinard -
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.
Eve Ensler