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Up Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way…
- Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this…
- Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they…
- As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical…
- I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed…
- I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get…
- I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours…
- Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong