Erin Belieu Quotes

I know there's a part of the feminist world that is like, "Hey, screw 'em, we'll do our own thing over here," and I can see there's a value in that. But a kind of nudgy part of me thinks: No. I want access, and I want my daughters to have access to the exact same thing, because we all know there's no such thing as separate but equal.

Erin Belieu

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
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  • Mom

• I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Strength

• I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Dark
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• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
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• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
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• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Bad
  • Rap

• Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Health
  • Nothing
  • Medicine

• A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Knowledge
  • Air

• I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Proud

• Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Mind
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• If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.

  

  Pat Cadigan
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• I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Pain
  • Regret

• I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • People
  • Good
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• By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
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  • World
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• Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
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• I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Father

• I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Night

• We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Thinking
  • Today
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• Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

  

  Simon McBurney
  • Present
  • Theatre
  • Exist

• I know there's a part of the feminist world that is like, "Hey, screw 'em, we'll do our own thing over here," and I can see there's a value in that. But a kind of nudgy part of me thinks: No. I want access, and I want my daughters to have access to the exact same thing, because we all know there's no such thing as separate but equal.

  

  Erin Belieu
  • Thinking
  • Daughter
  • Feminist