Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.
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When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
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I've been delivering these little homilies since 1980 - that's 37 years - and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries - and I trust you've hung onto every word.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
