Rebecca Traister Quotes

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• It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • Character
  • Song

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Career
  • Funny

• Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Different
  • Fashion

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Goal
  • Legend
  • Achieved

• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Like
  • Period
  • Christmas

• I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Help
  • Black
  • White

• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Think
  • Purpose

• My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Age
  • Night

• People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.

  

  Elizabeth Mitchell

• In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

  

  Joachim du Bellay
  • Night
  • Opinion

• I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Together

• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Present
  • Gossip

• I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

  

  Willy Russell
  • Husband
  • Feminist
  • Divorced

• Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Persistence

• Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Worry

• Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.

  

  Rebecca Traister
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