Barbara Deming Quotes
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.'
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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
