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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.
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Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.
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I've done a lot of different things in my life. I've parachuted, done some deep-sea diving. Inasmuch as it's safe to do, I can do it.
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The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.
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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.
