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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.

Barbara Deming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1917 - 1984

Topics

Change People Victory Thought Enemy

When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis - never did. We worked so that we could eat.

Melvin Van Peebles

Day Basketball Every Day Never Kid

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

Jean Reno

Family Good Enjoy Holiday Need Just

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

John Wooden

Yourself You Be True True Everyone

I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Write Biography Terrible Like

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

Tony Oller

Think Important Write Always Tell

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Rivers Cuomo

Music Help Meditation Back Try

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

Michael Rooker

Work Home Speak Learn Doing You

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Jose Marti

Men Mountains Nations Peaks

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

Jon Krakauer

Space People Moon Impact Outer Space

I'm into the food in Vegas. I'm willing to go to nice restaurants for sushi and stuff like that.

Britney Spears

Food Vegas Go Sushi Nice Stuff

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Office Prime Something Minister

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Arthur Smith

Myself Lonely Long Creating Meet