Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
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You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
