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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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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It requires strength of character to act upon one's ideas; it requires no less strength of character to resist being seduced by them.
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I write plays about big, intense subjects.
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But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
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Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
