Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
