Bella Abzug Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
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When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.
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I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
