Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyLoveBestHateGenerosity

We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.

John Lewis

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This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

Shirley Knight

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I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted.

Ronen Bergman

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In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Jason Mraz

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I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.

Jon Gruden

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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott

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I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

Brad Pitt

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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Arthur Erickson

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In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Arthur Henderson

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Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Annie Lennox

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Alfred Rosenberg

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