Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Barbara Kingsolver

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It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

Jeremy Paxton

StupidView

It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

Jenni Rivera

I AmPeopleMeThinkSome PeopleAm

My intentions are to try to make this state better.

Robert J. Bentley

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When I go home, I'm not the DA. I talk to my son about his day, I talk to my daughter about her day. I'm a wife and a mother.

Jeanine Pirro

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At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.

Michael Gove

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For my web series 'Get Your Life,' I wrote that and produced it and starred in it so that I could have a body of work that represents my voice as a writer and as a performer.

Amanda Seales

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It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.

Robert Webb

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People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Michael K. Williams

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Do not lose your independent mind, unconditioned mind. You have by nature a very powerful mind. You can find everything for yourself; you can know everything for yourself.

Lobsang Tenzin

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Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

Juan Gabriel

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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

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If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

Douglas Brunt

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