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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
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I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.
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I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
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It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
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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.
