"My parents had been involved in the labor……" — Holly Near
"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
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39 Quotes by Holly Near
Holly Near has 39 quotes on this site.
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Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let…
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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The…
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I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best…
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All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and…
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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
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When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
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I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I…
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You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
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Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
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A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
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I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first…
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Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
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I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very…
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There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're…
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the…
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
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