Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
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I was very poor when I was young.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.