Eve Ensler Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
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Landscape affects you.
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
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I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.
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If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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There's a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? It's not something that science helps you answer at all. It's one of these questions like, Who are you gong to marry? Science doesn't really help you with the question.
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I really want to help stop violence toward women.
