Eve Ensler Quotes
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
Quotes to Explore
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Fear controls you.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
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I get way too much happiness from good food.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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'They can hopscotch around us,' Chris told Laura. They can pop ahead in time to see where we show up, then they pick and choose the easiest place along the time stream to ambush us. It's sorta like… if we were the cowboys and the Indians were all psychic.'
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
