Nina Easton Quotes

The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama's economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.

Nina Easton

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What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

Jessica Chastain

WorkMeCareFairnessNowPay

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

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My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.

Amandla Stenberg

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There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

Sonita Alizadeh

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You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.

Robert Crumb

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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Rollo May

LoveHateApathyOpposite

I don't think any of my kids' books talk down to kids.

Roz Chast

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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Johnny Mathis

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And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Donald Cargill

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Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.

Colm Toibin

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You have to think big to be big.

Claude M. Bristol

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