Eve Bunting Quotes
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.
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My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
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I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.
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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
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Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.
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We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
