Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
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Everything is so fast now, everything is so disposable now, there's no time to build up a career like we used to have in the past.
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I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
