Wendell Berry Quotes
'There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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We want you to pay attention.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
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You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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One of the commonest perversions of love is to limit it to the private sphere.
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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
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Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
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Murder isn’t - it really isn’t - a thing to tamper with lightheartedly.
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'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.
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To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.
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A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.
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In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.
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'There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.'
