Joan Blades Quotes

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

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• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Surprise
  • Engineers

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media

• Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Remarkable
  • Bon Jovi
  • Jon

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Life
  • Always
  • Explore

• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Speaking

• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Bad
  • Worry
  • Name

• I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

  

  Knute Nelson
  • Country
  • War
  • Earth

• The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Spirit
  • Reflection
  • Source

• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Italy

• Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Change
  • Learning
  • Growth

• I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.

  

  Sully Erna Godsmack
  • Snake
  • Came
  • Far Away

• The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Purpose
  • Motherhood