Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
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We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
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You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
