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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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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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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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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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.
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It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.
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Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
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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.
