Jane Smiley Quotes
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
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They say a woman's placeIs to wait and serveUnder the veilSubmissive and dearBut I think my placeIs in a ship from spaceTo carry meThe hell out of here.
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During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
