Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.

John Gurdon

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I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Robert Jordan

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You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Steve Earle

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I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

Molly Ivins

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Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

Christian Louboutin

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Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

Brian Azzarello

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The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant H. McGill

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I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

Antony Sher

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Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That's a legend. He's the man!

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill

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I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.

Rick Wakeman

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I'm not going to risk our precious military resources on an ineffective, unproductive mission.

Kevin Brady

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