Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
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But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
