Wendy Doniger Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I shared my shelter, a ninth share in Arthur's valour. I broke a hundred forts. I slew a hundred stewards. I bestowed a hundred mantles. I cut off a hundred heads. I gave to an old chief very great swords of protection.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?
