Barbara Holland Quotes
It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
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Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.
