Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

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SpaceYouLosePlaceWithoutWhere

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

John Fogerty

GoodPeopleRock And RollKindRock

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

Matt Lucas

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I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

Roger Rees

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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Louis Armstrong

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I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

Judy Greer

GirlBabyFridayEnjoyMoviesOld

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

Johnny Flynn

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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

Anne Lamott

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When I got pregnant with my daughter, both my husband and I were freelancers, and we didn't have that much security. We had savings. We were better off than many people, but we didn't have, you know, pensions and all the things that people used to have.

Alissa Quart

DaughterPeopleHusbandBetterYou

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Paul Tillich

ManDestinyBecomeMakeHeHimself

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

Todd Rundgren

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