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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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.
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I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
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The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.
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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.
