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 -
Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.
Qiu Jin
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In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
Jeff Goodell -
On the other had, a desire to serve Christ in the ministry may become intense before there is evidence of the necessary gifts...If you yearn to serve Christ in the gospel ministry, that desire is surely a calling to prayer for the Spirit; likely it is also a foretaste and earnest of greater gifts in store.
Edmund Clowney -
The JCPOA has made the world safer. The deal ensures that Israel does not have to live with the threat of a nuclear Iran in its backyard.
Jan Schakowsky -
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade -
My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
Rei Kawakubo