Eileen Pollack Quotes

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

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• It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Healthy
  • Three
  • Big

• I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • War
  • Military
  • Slavery

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Alone

• We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Remember
  • Community
  • Better

• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Just
  • Hitting
  • Slump

• Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Evil
  • Everyday

• There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • You
  • Limit

• Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Feeling
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Understanding

• I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Important
  • Like
  • Traditions

• Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Why
  • Father

• Constantly battling with sabretooth tigers and fluid drained lighters.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice

• Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,singing 'I won't ever be lonely again'

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Friends
  • Morning

• A change came o'er my Vision - it was night: We clove a pathway through a frantic throng: The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright: The chariots whirled along.Within a marble hall a river ran - A living tide, half muslin and half cloth: And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan, Yet swallowed down her wrath

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Night
  • Vision
  • Broken

• I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.

  

  Lorraine Gary
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Single
  • Evil

• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Science
  • Understanding

• They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety, and above all else. I refuse to be politically correct.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Political
  • Safety

• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Him
  • Object

• My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Late

• You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Human being
  • Bliss
  • Falls

• I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

  

  Eileen Pollack