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Speak Your Mind
quotes about Speak Your Mind
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“If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.”
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“We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.”
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“Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.”
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“The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.”
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“It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.”
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“~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~”
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“It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.”
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“At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.”
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“She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.”
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“Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.”
