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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Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.
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I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.
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I think 'Holler If Ya Hear Me' is almost 'A Raisin in the Sun' 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it's about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It's still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
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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.
