Ina May Gaskin Quotes

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

Ina May Gaskin

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• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Win

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Play
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• I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Meditation
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• I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Money

• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Truth
  • True

• Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

  

  Ursula Nordstrom
  • Artist
  • Creative
  • Chaos

• When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Google

• When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Music
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• I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Feels
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• Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
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  • Cleveland

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • War
  • Human
  • Destroy

• We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • Strange
  • Lucky
  • Legacy

• Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

  

  David Shore
  • Things
  • Means
  • Dealing

• The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Planet
  • Human Species
  • Mammals