Alice Steinbach Quotes
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.
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If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisure time that comes with the pursuit of poetry. Instead, this is ceremony. This is a highly charged way to create a sacred space that isn't necessarily about God, but is about human experience at its most profound levels - whether that's love or grief, separation, or homeland. All are altered states.
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Everybody needs an editor.
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That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
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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.
