Nevada Barr Quotes
God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.
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We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.
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Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.
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Gratitude is heaven itself.
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.
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God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.
