Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.Barbara Kingsolver
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
Salma Hayek -
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
Carli Lloyd -
I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
Fleur East -
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder -
Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
Nancy Kerrigan -
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
Daniel Espinosa -
My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
Jaclyn Smith -
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd -
In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
Karen Salmansohn
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I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik -
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple -
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel
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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Jerome K. Jerome -
I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
Canelo Alvarez -
I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.
Jeff Baena -
Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.
Judy Gold -
I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.
Patti Smith -
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Barbara Kingsolver