Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
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You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.
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Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
