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Barbara Atchison

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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
RICHARD BRANSON Progress has the most value in its timing. We are not growing trees!
ALEXANDRA PINTO Growing farm show apples starts now with pruning the trees. In fact, it goes back to selecting the v...
DWIGHT MICKEY I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it ...
KEVIN KWAN Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't...
ROBERT JACKSON It is an island full of myth, full of story, full of history, ... There are many, many tales about t...
JOSE MARIA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones...
IAN WILLIAMSON They looked as if they had trees growing out of them.
TOM KITE Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
CHARLIE DAY Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back th...
MOLLY RINGLE The trees and plants are ready to take up some rain now. It's been so dry and the streams are also l...
BRIAN LOVEJOY Japan is back on its feet and growing again.
DAVID HENSLEY The danger in coming back at that is you're repeating it. Now, what you may try to do is come back a...
DAN HEDGES Trip is really coming into his own...when they took the lead early in the fourth quarter he came bac...
JAKE PALLUZZI Sugar daddy,,, your sugar is low,,, your love is growing... now, I must go.
NERISSA IRVING History is the past that is definitely, hopefully not coming back.
BORIS ZUBRY The industrial real estate market completed one of its strongest demand cycles in history as several...
BRIAN GORDON We'd rather be steady early on and get that much better as the season goes on, instead of being so l...
CHRIS HERNANDEZ Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when w...
GERRY ADAMS The commercial market for auto parts is still growing. This segment is still really in the early sta...
ALAN RIFKIN The low volume is coming because the market is holding its collective breath ahead of the Fed.
COURTNEY SMITH We can show a direct relationship between money spent and money coming back in, and it's coming back...
PETE MEERSMAN We?re getting our guys in better shape and polishing things up a bit. The north schools had the adva...
CAIN JAGODZINSKI When I first saw this place, in its bones, it reminded me of Augusta National, what with its (clubho...
DAVID FRY They're growing up in an environment so different than what I grew up in. I think they're beginning ...
FOREST WHITAKER theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT Last year we raised $6,000, and of course we hope to raise more this year.
BARBARA ATCHISON Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa...
BARBARA ATCHISON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON His statement was that he had been coming in late after dark, and leaving early in the morning befor...
CAPT. CHUCK BASTAK We set the tone early so there was no chance of them coming back.
LENNY JEFFERSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there wh...
GERRY ADAMS Right now, I'm coming back.
ROBBIE EARL It is fun for me to see the trees being put in. I hand-picked each of them at a nursery in Georgia a...
BRIAN STEBBINS Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
MARTIN MCGUINNESS Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e...
LILY COLLINS Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, come forward!
KEN ROSATO I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...
GEORGE AUSTIN Trees are essentially growing chairs. There are lots of primates that sit and sleep in them.
GEORGE M. CHURCH We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't pl...
CHRIS ALLRED My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had ...
ALEXA RAY JOEL They claim to have been weeding out a lot of their low value added subscribers and focusing on the m...
JAMES HARPER Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN It's All Coming Back to Me Now,
CELINE DION Growing up I was told that the early bird got the worm and I would always answer back "Well the seco...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR Job seekers are in a really good position right now. With Florida's low unemployment rate and a grow...
JOELLY FABER Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable a...
JAMES DOBSON You're judged by your last performance each and every week. We had a great one coming out. Now we're...
LONDON FLETCHER That was a low point in Denver history.
BILL MUSGRAVE The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confis...
ALBERT JAY NOCK The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confis...
ALBERT J. NOCK We've had to battle back. Points are too important now and we've got to find a way to shake ourselve...
RANDY CARLYLE In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that...
MICHAEL DELL So when the penguin takes a step, its center of mass is low, so when he stops coming up over his leg...
TIM GRIFFIN Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.
J.K. ROWLING At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manife...
GARY ZUKAV Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. ABRAMS You always look at what's possible, but that product (the Cobalt) is early in its cycle right now.
GARY COWGER Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON That was a big win. Last time, we had several opportunities to put the game away early and didn't ta...
DALE CUTSFORTH The Columbia Basin is not an island; we're part of a much larger economy, and our economy is in trou...
BILL RILEY We didn't have a big lead, and we knew Rock Island would fight to the end. I didn't want to let up j...
JENNA HOWARD And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The historical low delinquency rate was 3.9 percent in the late 1970s, while the historical high for...
DOUG DUNCAN I don't remember the last time in Pirate hockey history that we had back-to-back 10-goal games.
JEFF PERREAULT I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a...
HAROLD E. VARMUS The tree root lifts up and breaks the sidewalk. They trim the roots back from the trees and put a ro...
JEFF SKIDMORE I like to break down vistas and allow them to be stitched back together in the mind's eye. The pond ...
JACK CHANDLER If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.
BARBARA WALTERS The guys have stuck with it. We lost some early meets, but seem to be coming through now.
BRIAN SLOAN It's like it was back in the early '90s when we were coming to camp with a chance to win a champions...
CRAIG PATRICK We were a little tight early. The 10-day layoff that we had took its toll early. We were prepared, s...
DONNIE MADZIA ... back then the sky seemed so vast.

And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, an...
INIO ASANO I thought we got down early but we had a great second quarter and got back in the game.
MIKE ANGEL I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'
TOM HANKS Coupling the system to a low-cost pump source, such as a microchip laser, could open up commercial o...
JUSTIN LAWRENCE When we took the company over it was a remnant in a way, compared to the major company. With two Sou...
ALEX MILLER Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in th...
MARGARET THATCHER You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN They had the momentum coming out of halftime and we had to get our intensity back.
BRITTANY CAMPBELL My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much differen...
TRACY MORGAN I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back ...
DARYL HALL The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and...
DAVID GROSS (Colorado has) two junior running backs who are smaller guys coming back. I can contribute in short-...
DEMETRIUS SUMLER Trees are coming down like crazy, like toothpicks.
PAUL MILLER It seemed like when we were coming back from Southern Cal, we had to land in Fort Smith and ride the...
HAROLD HORTON Please do not try to come back to the island. ... Hopefully, in the next couple of days, this island...
ANN THOMAS As far as people coming back, that's the obstacle now, the schools,
JAMES PARISH Trees and debris and rooftops in trees into houses. We've been removing debris out of the road. Now ...
LARRY KELLY With China now back in the market after the New Year, there was some catching up in early trading on...
WILLIAM ADAMS Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO We were down early in the doubles point because we are used to them being aggressive and coming to t...
CATRINA THOMPSON Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J.J. FURNAS Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER They were coming in here ready to give us one more big shot. They had the adrenaline going early and...
BARBARA STEVENS

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BOB ATCHISON It's still active. We're not reporting any containment of the fires just yet.
CARRIE ATCHISON The flames laid down a little overnight.
CARRIE ATCHISON There is still critical fire danger throughout out that whole region.
CARRIE ATCHISON The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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.
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BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
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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 It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
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BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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...
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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. ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
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BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
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BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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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...
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BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
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BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
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BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
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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...
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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