Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.Barbara Kingsolver
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice -
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash -
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
Hamza Yusuf -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
Walt Mossberg -
If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
Karen Salmansohn
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
Ikue Mori -
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
Dana Perino -
I always do my interviews face to face.
Rachel Weisz -
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
Imtiaz Ali
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
Karl Pilkington -
If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
Patrick Kane -
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Ulrich Beck -
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Xavier Becerra -
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
M. Russell Ballard -
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.
Emily Browning -
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
Catherine Drinker Bowen -
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
Jane Austen -
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
Barbara Kingsolver