Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

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• To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Genius

• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brave

• Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Tax

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Food
  • Enough
  • Moment

• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• 'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • World
  • Great
  • Learning

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien

• What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Eye

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Business
  • Science
  • Politics

• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Music
  • Protection
  • Copy

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Every
  • Pastor

• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Small
  • Wisdom
  • Thoughts

• You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Work
  • Broadway

• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Son

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Dad

• Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Soul
  • Shadow

• I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Lesbian

• In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Pretty
  • Cancer
  • Being