Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
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There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.
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I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
