Emma Goldman Quotes

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Emma Goldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940

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For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

Joe Gebbia

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I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

Jennifer Egan

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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

Jenni Rivera

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I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Maya Angelou

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It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

Michael Emerson

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I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a whole other thing. I'm going for what it sounds like right away, so it may not even look good on the page.

Tom Waits

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David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

Michael Keaton

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You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

Mitch Leigh

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I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.

Jason Statham

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Indeed, the world is a better place because there was such a leader as President Gordon B. Hinckley.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

Brenda Lee

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