Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
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You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company
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Ice Cube's the coolest dad. A lot of parents - a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad's cool... You know, I was born in 1991. That's when 'Boyz n the Hood' came out. So I've always see him on TV. I don't see everybody else's dad, you know. So I've always had a sense of, you know, he's cool. He's in the light.
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I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
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My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
