Ariel Dorfman Quotes
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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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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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
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I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.
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You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
