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- When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
- Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and…
- Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
- Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old…
- The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
- Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get…
- The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece…
- April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
- It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
- But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
- Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick…
- Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness…
- Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
- Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and…
- It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
- Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
- Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where…
- I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong