Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Barbara Kingsolver

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LoveChildrenCuteCreateImportant

I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

Melania Trump

ProfessionalOldFirstYearsDid

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Michael Hutchence

PlayingAwayKeepSuckJustOxygen

As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.

Michael Cohen

GovernmentProcessAmericanSame

There is a growing interest in team ownership and promoting sports beyond cricket in India. I always felt it is important to encourage other sports, especially those that bring communities together and promote active lifestyles to Indian youth.

Anand Mahindra

SportsTogetherTeamYouthCricket

This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country.

Steve Bannon

SocietyAmericaHealthcareCountry

There's times when I go, 'We should have done a bunch of videos.'...Regardless of mistakes we've made, we made 'em, and we own 'em.

Mike McCready

MistakesGoDoneOwnMadeShould

I've never been afraid to fail.

Michael Jordan

NeverAfraidFailBeen

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Mitch Daniels

FailureFutureOptimismAmbitionNow

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

Juicy J

WantKindPresidentRecordsLike

Rock music is niche.

Bono

MusicRockNicheRock Music

I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up.

Marjorie Liu

LifeWorkDreamsPassionFunPeople

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Lysander Spooner

NatureLawPermanentThingsRule

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