Nevada Barr Quotes
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
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I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'
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Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
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The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.
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Nature was taking back what had once been hers.
