Barbara G. Walker Quotes
Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.
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The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.
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The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
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If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
