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I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.
— Alden Ehrenreich
Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
— Molly Ivins
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.
— Margaret Stohl
I had discovered that writing
with whatever instrument
was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do. — Barbara Ehrenreich
with whatever instrument
was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
— Alden Ehrenreich
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.
— Alden Ehrenreich
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
We are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
War is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.
— Ben Ehrenreich
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.
— Diane Sawyer
To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
— Alden Ehrenreich
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I believe nothing. Belief is intellectual surrender; "faith" a state of willed self-delusion.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."
— Barbara Ehrenreich
There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifference to what is urgently important to others.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
That's what "meaning" is - a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America — Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America — Barbara Ehrenreich
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
— Barbara Ehrenreich
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
— Alden Ehrenreich
Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Marriage is socialism among two people.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm not a nice person.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.
— Ben Ehrenreich
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
You can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong the conversation.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
No job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.
— Barbara Ehrenreich