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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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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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
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My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.
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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.
