Alice Steinbach Quotes

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Alice Steinbach

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• Passion
• Human
• Trouble
• Rights

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• I like sitting close to windows.

  

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• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  

  Karen McDougal
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• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

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• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

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• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

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• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

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• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

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• None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

  

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• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

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  • World
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• I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
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• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
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• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

  

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• It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

  

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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

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• What we do not understand, we cannot control.

  

  Charles A. Reich
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• Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

  

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  

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• Guilt, she’d explained, was useful because a person could learn from it and do the right thing next time. Shame, on the other hand, was useless.

  

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• This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Love
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• I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Human