Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.
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Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.
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I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.
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You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
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We pushed back a lot of the old things, trying to get rid of the negative stuff and look at this as a new day, a refreshing, reinventing type of thing, ... Doing a musical is something that's been in my heart for years. We finally decided to do it together.
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A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.
