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 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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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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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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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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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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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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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
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I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.
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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.
