Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
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As one southern-born antislavery activist later wrote, it was a “sad satire to call the States ‘United,’” because in one-half of the country slavery was basic to its way of life while in the other it was fading or already gone. The founding fathers tried to stitch these two nations together with no idea how long the stitching would hold.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
