Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes -
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David -
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
Tamra Davis -
In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
Lady Gaga -
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Ira Hayes -
We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
H. P. Lovecraft -
My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn -
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
Rachel Sklar
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter -
I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
Zach LaVine -
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben -
I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
Gary Busey
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Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
Jane Velez-Mitchell -
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
Karen DeCrow -
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
Kim Young-ha -
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov -
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
Mark Steyn -
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
Barbara Ehrenreich