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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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.
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I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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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.
