Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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...there is very little about self-publishing a comic book that can be taught, but everything about it can be learned. (p. 21)
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.
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Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
