Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
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Tony Perkins wrote that out for me - he actually wrote out 2, he wrote out the number 2 Corinthians, I took exactly what Tony said, and I said, 'Well Tony has to know better than anybody.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
