Barbara Holland Quotes

No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.

Barbara Holland

• Solitude
• No Doubt
• Voluntary

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• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

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• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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• The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
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• The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.

  

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• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

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• I am Providence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.Inaction, no falsifying dreamBetween my hooked head and hooked feet:Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Perfect
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• If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
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• Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.

  

  Jamie Dimon

• Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

  

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• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  

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• If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.

  

  Bobby Wallace

• Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

  

  Brian Greene
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• Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.

  

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• I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

  

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• Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

  

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• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
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• With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Light
  • Communication
  • Solitude

• All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Reason
  • Existence
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• No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Solitude
  • No Doubt
  • Voluntary