You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
JANE FONDAYou can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
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I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
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