Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
Nadia Comaneci -
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Adam McKay -
I believe in the free enterprise system.
Ralph Norman -
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
Wendy Davis
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
FKA twigs -
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
Victor Cruz -
People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
Eden Hazard -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
Ellen Willis -
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel -
Into left-center field and deep, THIS IS A TIE BALLGAME!
Bob Costas -
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver