Alicia Ostriker Quotes
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Excess is excrement.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will
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I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
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Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
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There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
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There is no fyre without some smoke.
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Suffering. That was the key.
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People are always talking about how bad the seventies were, but things in the popular culture have gotten much worse even since then. I grew up watching Laverne & Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy never slept over. Now with shows like Friends or Married... with Children, sex is everywhere. I mean, can you imagine the minds that were raised on those shows?
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Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight, And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light. And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.
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There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.
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Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
