Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.
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Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.
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France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.
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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
