Naomi Wolf Quotes
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
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A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.
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I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
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My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
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real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
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I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
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Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.
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My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.
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I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
