Bill Crawford Quotes
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
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I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
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I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
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I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
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My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
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I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
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I always demand intensity in training. That's my style, and I like it.
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We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
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Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
