Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Quotes to Explore
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
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If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
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I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign up for the Army. They want to be heroes and save their neighbors from disaster.
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I've been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of 'The Times' and wrote some of the first pieces about the existence of the program at Yongbyon.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
