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When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Also Away Beads Desk Get Go Jewellery Like Make Need Places Take Tend Walks Working

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There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

~Annalynne Mccord

Topics: Beads Cambodia Lot Made Me Organizations Recent Rescued Rocking Sex Silk Strings Support Survivors Trade Were Who

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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Accommodate Around Beads Born Buddhist Castle Coral Dressed Edge Enough Fat Father Her Large Lived Monks Neck Once Paid Plateau Princess Reception Room Ropes She Thousand Tibetan Tribute Who Woman Young Young Woman

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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

~Brenda Ueland

Topics: Absorb After Another Beads Child Feel Happy Kindergarten Learned Like Lord Mountain Putting Quietly Should Top Writing You

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Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

~Buffy Sainte-Marie

Topics: About American American Culture Beads Contemporary Culture Fringe Hearing Instead Just Kids Living Native Native American Present Were

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I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

~Christopher Columbus

Topics: Beads Board Came Directed Dozen Each Each Man Estimated Fed Glass Highly Leather Man Ordered Presented Should Something Strings Ten Those Which

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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.

~Clemantine Wamariya

Topics: Ability Beads Believe Girl Hope Imaginations Learn Lives Me Means Own Readers Shape Smiled Truly Who

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The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

~David Selby

Topics: Beads Because Had Hung Kept Made Only Peace People Protests The Only Thing Them Thing Were Wish Wonderful Wonderful Thing I Wish 1960S

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How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Affair Beads Count Days Deals Death Highly Hike How Loved Loved One Others People Personalized Some Some People Take Weep Woods

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I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

~Emmylou Harris

Topics: About Band Beads Gives Like Material Older Pearls Really Songs Spin String Stuff Think Together Ultimately Works

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