Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
