I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.


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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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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
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
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER