Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Even the most recalcitrant climate scientists agree now, the place is heating up. pretty much every one of the lot. Unless some other outcome is written on the subject line of his paycheck. ... If you were here to get information, Tina, you would not be standing in my laboratory telling me what scientists think.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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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?
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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A big part of my living is my stand-up material on the road.
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
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Even the most recalcitrant climate scientists agree now, the place is heating up. pretty much every one of the lot. Unless some other outcome is written on the subject line of his paycheck. ... If you were here to get information, Tina, you would not be standing in my laboratory telling me what scientists think.
