Eileen Pollack Quotes
Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.
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If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
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The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.
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Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
