Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito -
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
Laura Marano -
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
Pat Buchanan -
I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
Young Thug
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
Gavin O'Connor -
The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
Bebe Rexha -
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
Taissa Farmiga -
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi -
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
Iman
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang -
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin -
Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
Rachael Ray -
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers
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American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
Camille Paglia -
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. Tillman -
I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
Vin Diesel -
To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
Wayne Dyer -
All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver