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.Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
Malcolm Wallop -
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
Kangana Ranaut -
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan -
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Cam Newton
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
Maajid Nawaz -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
Rainn Wilson -
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.
Jaclyn Smith -
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.
Patrick Ewing -
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.
Camila Alves
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Samantha Morton -
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro -
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.
Laura Mvula -
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman -
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
Pat Buchanan -
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan
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The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
Charles H. Townes -
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
David Cassidy -
I'm hugely patriotic.
Adam Peaty -
As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
January Jones -
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
Barbara Kingsolver