Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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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've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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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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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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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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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then, later on, I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all. When you have the ability to live that life, to some extent you find out that they don't have any magic cure for everything.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
