Ellen Willis Quotes

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

Ellen Willis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006

Topics

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I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Jessica Williams

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My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there's a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.

Jessica Stockholder

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maxwell Maltz

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Yes, I am 100% anarchist. Anarchy, to me, is a belief that all transactions, all activity, should be voluntary. It is a peaceful philosophy of not forcing anyone to do anything and not allowing anyone else to force you to do anything.

Jeff Berwick

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Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful.

Trixie Mattel

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True stories are way more interesting.

Travis Fimmel

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I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

Tom Ford

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Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

Jordan Peterson

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So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Dennis Bergkamp

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People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Arthur Rock

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Centrally, I cannot interfere in states.

Piyush Goyal

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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