Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
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Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
