Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.Barbara Kingsolver
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I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul -
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
J. D. Vance -
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
Yair Lapid -
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey -
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
Natalie Zea -
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
Fetty Wap
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho -
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
Carlos Ponce -
When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams -
I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
Mads Mikkelsen -
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
Malcolm Gladwell -
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry -
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne -
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
Barry Jenkins -
I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
Vanilla Ice
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I've always helped polo to grow.
Adolfo Cambiaso -
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
Barack Obama -
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
Daniel Ellsberg -
I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.
Adan Canto -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver