Barbara Smith
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and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA CHRISTINA ENGELA DEBASISH MRIDHA CRAIG GROESCHEL NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER CHRISTINA ENGELA TAMMARA WEBBER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON WENDELL BERRY If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN HUBERT SELBY JR. Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good! SILVIA HARTMANN People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL GERMANY KENT NICK HORNBY NEIL GAIMAN HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE CRAIG GROESCHEL Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER EDWARD R. MURROW (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON DEYTH BANGER LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over.... GARY F EVANS... Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER CHLOE THURLOW In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA C. JOYBELL C. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH FRANCINE RIVERS UNKNOWN DEYTH BANGER J.D. SALINGER J.D. SALINGER A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE MARILYN MANSON JOAN POWERS A.A. MILNE RICHIE NORTON ISRAELMORE AYIVOR DEBASISH MRIDHA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE ERNEST HEMINGWAY RAINER MARIA RILKE ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS TESSA DARE HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO MADELEINE L'ENGLE DAVE PELZER Parents are so busy running the kids around to activities, if we could also tell grandparents and au... LINDA PORTER FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DEYTH BANGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA HARUKI MURAKAMI ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
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Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found... BARBARA SMITH A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi... BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ... BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit... BARBARA SMITH A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi... BARBARA SMITH This helps (the students) in getting over their shyness of talking to adults and (shows them) how th... BARBARA SMITH He's here for the Soldiers. He came in here running. He knew we had some problems, and he jumped on ... BARBARA SMITH We've always been struggling with obesity in medicine. We've all recognized it will take a community... BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. BARBARA SMITH They're the law and if they're running around, you'd think they'd be telling people. I had no clue w... BARBARA SMITH This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are ... BARBARA SMITH It's unreal. I don't know how to explain it. He should be alive. BARBARA SMITH I'm really shocked something like this would happen. BARBARA SMITH I just can't understand why something like this would happen in the neighborhood. It makes you want ... BARBARA SMITH I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns. 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BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday. BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so... BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots... BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs... BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor. BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty... BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ... BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. BARBARA STANWYCK BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni... BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook. BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t... BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c... BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ... BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de... BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to... BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron. BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is... BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad. BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ... BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr... BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books. BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus... BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f... BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ... BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ... BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho... BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues. BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin... BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I... BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think... BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per... BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life. BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'... BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi... BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against... BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de... BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop... BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ... BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t... BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei... BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds... BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi... BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages... BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what... BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere... BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ... BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur... BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome... BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new... BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated... BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ... BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta... BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin... BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w... BARBARA KOPPLE BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER
It is a lie. 
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... 
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
is a broken man an outlaw?"
The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ... 
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... 
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like ho... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... 
There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... 
We should be ready for a change. 
Did you see more glass? 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. 
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... 
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. 
Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep... 
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. 
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... 
After Rilke's Letters
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... 
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... 
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. 
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. 
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go... 
a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day 
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... 
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. 
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K... 
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g... 
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. 
I have a pig valve. 
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every... 
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. 
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count... 
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post... 
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou... 
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c... 
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as... 
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ... 
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho... 
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h... 
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. 
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ... 
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. 
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ... 
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... 
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... 
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca... 