Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.
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Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.
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Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
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The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.
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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
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The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
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I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.
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By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.
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Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
