Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.
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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
