FastSaying

We've always been struggling with obesity in medicine. We've all recognized it will take a community effort to tackle the problem.


Barbara Smith

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
EVA LANG Weve got a lot more than a lot of people.
IAN WILLIAMSON [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro...
GREG MACK Its a very concerted effort with the city of Portsmouth, the state of New Hampshire, the FBI and all...
JAMES ADAMS It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl...
JOHN HOGAN Weve made it tough for looters to get into the neighborhoods, ... We work with a military police uni...
AARON KATZ I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea...
EVA LANG Weve talked in general about spin-offs and updating it - we dont have specific plans at this point. ...
BURT FEINTUCH Weve included features that werent in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the...
CARLOS MARIN Both black and white children are using drugs of choice. We are concerned and we hope we can make a ...
BRIAN CALDWELL We feel confident that we can continue to provide the services that weve provided in the past, ... A...
DAVID GLEASON The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It&#...
RITA COOLIDGE Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 d...
LEE KUAN YEW The problem is with us today. We need to tackle it today.
CRAIG NICKERSON The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat...
ANNE ROSS Our small community has been inundated with the manure and the odors coming from Smith Brothers.
CINDY CARTER We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spo...
TIPPI HEDREN And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
TOM SELLECK We're going to be asking for more staff to do outreach in the community. We're going out into the st...
CLIFF SMITH I'll take it. We've been struggling, so I'll take it.
AL MCCULLOCK Sometimes it will take more time, sometims less, but in time I will always solve the problem.
JIM GENOVESE No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation...
DAVID BAKER The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the ...
WILLIAM HENRY DANFORTH Obesity is a significant problem in people and animals.
DR. GREGORY OGILVIE This measure will certainly help tackle the problem of tuberculosis in our country and we hope it wi...
CANDIDO MINDU We are working with the University of West Alabama to grow a program that will grow your own. Succes...
CLYDE BARGANIER Positive attitude may not solve all the problem, but it will generate an outcome to make it worth th...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA [The settlement sets a dangerous precedent for future zoning permit disputes in Eureka Springs, Harr...
KATHY HARRISON Obesity is a very serious problem. It's not going to be solved in the courtroom.
LISA RICKARD This is not just a school problem. This is a parent and a community problem as well. We have a lot o...
BRIAN FIELD With this team, it has always been a collective effort. Everyone who has been in their position has ...
LONA OZREK The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF West Lafayette has been recognized as having the lowest city property tax and recognized for helping...
JAN MILLS It will take a lot of time. It will take a lot of effort.
HENRY BUNSOW We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, .....
STEVEN BLAIR Obesity is not a minor problem. It actually reduces life expectancy by a quarter.
DR. NICOLA BASSO Community theater depends on its friends and neighbors to take the role of actors, producers, direct...
JOYCE HENDRICKS We need to do the same things we have been doing. It will take the same effort to beat Rushville.
ERIC SCHREIBER Obesity is a health risk impacting all our communities and we are encouraged by the commitment commu...
ARTURO VARGAS Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.
INDRA NOOYI The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need ti...
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA All members of the international community should make due efforts in accordance with that. China wi...
ZHANG QIYUE great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem we’ve been struggling with for so long is a gr...
JAMES ARMSTRONG The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopp...
ELISHA CUTHBERT It is the largest, most consistent, all-community, life-saving effort in our Valley currently.
DEAN ELLER The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, t...
JO BRAND Underage drinking is a community problem and it needs a community solution. We're all in this togeth...
ATTORNEY GENERAL STEVEN ROWE The new format of our yearling sale was the first major change introduced this year to SCs sales, .....
HEATHER REID That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD All in all, it was a good effort, a gritty effort. We stuck with it.
MARC CRAWFORD great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem we’ve been struggling with for so long is a gre...
JAMES ARMSTRONG We're excited to start league play. They are always a good team. Morgan has Park City's number. It w...
BRANDON MATICH It makes a difference with the kids because alcohol is a big problem in this community.
DANNY LYONS The big health problem in the country today is diabetes and pre-diabetes obesity .
ARTHUR AGATSTON Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.
CATHY NONAS Even if fast-food critics are well-meaning in their intentions, they are trying to fix a very legiti...
LISA RICKARD Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can ...
RICHARD ATTIAS I look forward to working with the community in a heightened effort. I respect all the members of th...
JAMES ANDERSON I think they were struggling to pass and it got in their heads a little bit. But we've been working ...
CASSIE OSIECKI The health-care problem is not just in public agencies and government, and not only with retirees, ....
SUSAN ADAMS The Board of Regents is pleased that Denny Sanford's generosity and dedication to improving South Da...
HARVEY JEWETT Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You can’t just keep cutting off l...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long r...
VIRGINIA FOXX It will take a grassroots effort. The more small groups we can meet with, the better off we'll be.
TRACEY ANDERS I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it make...
THERESA MAY Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself is
crucial not only for enhanc...
CAROLYN BAKER We're celebrating our seventh birthday...We had a pretty strong year, ... And we've sort of been str...
ERIC SCHMIDT You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments ...
ANN STROTHER Healthy Living will create health collaboration in Fayette County. It works to reduce obesity, heart...
KARY COLEMAN What we're trying to do is use some of the same legal tactics that have been so effective against th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON In the future we will have it. It's just a problem of time. It will take a long time.
ASHLEY WU We are so thankful to be able to provide the kids with extra types of activities in this day and age...
DAWNA BATES On most nights when we've lost we've been pretty happy with our effort. It's never been a problem, b...
BRIAN SUTHERBY Everything starts with Smith. He beats you with his arms and his legs. Stopping Smith will give us a...
VICTOR ABIAMIRI [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
RAGHURAM RAJAN Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. -Barbara Johnson.
BARBARA JOHNSON It's a great feeling to be recognized for doing something different in the sailing community.
JAKE GELLER This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.
GIORGIO ARMANI I was struggling with my game. I've been struggling all week, ... I wasn't holing the putts. It's ha...
PADRAIG HARRINGTON I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with ...
DAVID SHUSTER It's funny, 'cause when you have a really tough discipline problem, sometimes you bring them to Barb...
KAREN MEREDITH You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see thes...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru...
MATHIAS MALZIEU Clearly the education community is understanding these are big issues to tackle.
BRAD CLARK I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of...
BARRY WILLIAMS Fiber has been associated with a lower risk of diseases such as Type II diabetes and obesity. By inc...
LISA MCDERMOTT The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
DAVID LEE ROTH Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand a...
AMY SMITH It will take the efforts of the community to remove the school from the priority list. It'll take th...
LAURA JONES Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
KURT COBAIN This is not a Black problem. It is not a white problem. It is not a police problem. It is a WE probl...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. I've always kinda wanted to work with Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, and people like that. Probably...
CAYDEN BOYD They gave us every opportunity to come back. Our power play has been struggling a bit this year and ...
COREY MARKHAM

More Barbara Smith

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 We would like for every kid in northeast Ohio to receive a letter. It can be left on a pillow, maile...
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 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.
BARBARA SMITH The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
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 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.
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 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.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
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...
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 We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ...
BARBARA MANDRELL In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let...
BARBARA MANDRELL I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
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.
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