Barbara Wood Quotes
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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My friend, the moon god was Allah. He was just one of 360 idols in the Ka'aba in Mecca. And Muhammad knew all about this. The crescent moon is everywhere in Islam. Even Ramadan begins and ends with the crescent moon. Ask your mullah why!
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Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
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It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.
