Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 26, 1941

Topics

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Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.

Jim Cooper

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If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Jocko Willink

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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

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Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Tommy Chong

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Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Tony Curtis

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I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

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While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

Mike Simpson

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Martin Luther King Jr. could have argued that separate water fountains were too expensive, a waste of money. He would have been right about that. But cost was beside the point.

Michelle Alexander

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We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Michelle Obama

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Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

Missy Elliott

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A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

Cliff Chiang

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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

August Wilson

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