Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
There is some kind of juice in our brains that makes us only care about what's in front of us right this minute. Even if we know something different will happen later and we should think about that too. ... If I could teach you one thing, Preston, that's it. Think about what's coming at you later on.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?
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Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.
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We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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It's important to remember that there are many different types of people, styles of teaching and that we won't agree with all of them.
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There is some kind of juice in our brains that makes us only care about what's in front of us right this minute. Even if we know something different will happen later and we should think about that too. ... If I could teach you one thing, Preston, that's it. Think about what's coming at you later on.
