Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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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.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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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.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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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.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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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.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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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.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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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.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
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On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion.
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There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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Most immigration opponents are loath to admit it, at least publicly, but they are worried that the huge influx of Hispanics will somehow change America for the worse. But those fears are unfounded. Some may talk about the browning of America, but immigrants are a net positive.
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If I hadn't been living here in America, do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
