Frida Kahlo Quotes
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
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The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
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Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
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Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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I love you more than my own skin.
