Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.Barbara Kingsolver
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
Jaclyn Smith -
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
Lake Bell -
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
Kara Swisher -
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Ralph Merkle -
If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi -
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Nanci Griffith -
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
Yuvraj Singh -
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
Tanya Roberts -
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
Cab Calloway
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine Albright -
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara -
You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
Carine Roitfeld -
I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
Caitriona Balfe -
Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
Adam D'Angelo
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The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.
James Durbin Quiet Riot -
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
Andrew Cuomo -
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has black friends. She's in the middle of nowhere - the closest airport is, like, three hours away - and she manages to connect with black people.
Luvvie Ajayi -
We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.
Charlie Sykes -
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
Barbara Kingsolver