Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
Mandy Bujold -
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
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I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
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'Paper Girls' in 1900 would be really cool. The girls could ride those old bicycles with the giant front wheel!
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Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don’t count?
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If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
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I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?