Erin Gruwell Quotes

I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'

Erin Gruwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1969

Topics

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I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Jennette McCurdy

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When I heard the BBC was making 'Little Women,' I rushed to audition.

Maya Hawke

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By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland's first casino, with 1,900 slot machines and eighty-nine table games.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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The Undertaker's beaten me down pretty bad quite a few times.

Jeff Hardy

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Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

Michael Connelly

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I love seeing the videos of people who go and talk to these neo-Nazis because they're like, 'I'm just here to have a conversation and understand.' Having a conversation about it and talking about your emotions without judgement. You have to be able to be completely open, because they're not going to be, but you could turn a new leaf in their life.

Amber Mark

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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Amos Oz

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Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them.

Stephanie Cutter

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One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

Smokey Robinson

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The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

Robert Duncan McNeill

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In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.

Rollo May

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There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

Mary Steenburgen

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