Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.
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The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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Love will make a way out of no way.
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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
