Elaine Equi Quotes
The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
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Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
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The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
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Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
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I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
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The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.
