Naomi Wolf Quotes
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
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We all need to call upon our lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for hard-working, law-abiding undocumented people and their families.
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I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
