Bernadine Dohrn Quotes
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
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Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
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I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
