Rei Kawakubo Quotes
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson -
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
Nancy Gibbs -
I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
Naomi Watts -
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
Imelda Marcos -
When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
Fetty Wap -
The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
Ian Caldwell -
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
Laura Dern -
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
Karen Armstrong -
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
Madison Pettis
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
Adam Cohen -
I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
Kage Baker -
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
Logic -
We are really focused on the beauty enthusiast... but also, as you know, everybody has got a great phone in their pocket. Everybody is taking pictures. Who doesn't want to look good in a picture? I don't know anybody who doesn't.
Mary Dillon -
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
Dean Kamen -
I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.
Carmen Busquets
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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck -
Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
Candice Olson -
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader -
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
J. Arthur Thomson -
My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
Rei Kawakubo