Barbara Stocking Quotes
Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.
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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.
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At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.
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Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.
