Erin Brockovich Quotes
We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
Quotes to Explore
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.
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A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
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We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
