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.
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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.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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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.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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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.
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
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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.
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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.
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If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
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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.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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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.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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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.
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Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
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Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.
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What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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There's no substitute for direct personal interaction.
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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.
